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They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukAnd if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
Leviticus
LawI am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.
Deuteronomy
LawA fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
Proverbs
WisdomAs the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnI rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
2 John
General Epistles / JohnAnd think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewMeraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraIn the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBecause thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOf these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesDelilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.
Judges
History / SamuelBut the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the LORD; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto the LORD God of your fathers.
Ezra
History / EzraOne basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHe shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.