Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulIt is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomTheir blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
Psalms
PoetryAnd David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:
1 Samuel
HistoryThen will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWith clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other, they let them go.
Acts
History / LukeThus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
Job
Wisdom / JobWhereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
James
General EpistlesAnd their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.
Genesis
Law / MosesNeither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,
Luke
GospelsDo not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsShalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahA woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
John
GospelsIf a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
Exodus
Law / MosesUntil the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesSo that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.
Ezra
History / EzraWhence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
Numbers
LawThen he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.