Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
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It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThe sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
Psalms
PoetryThe sons of Jehieli; Zetham, and Joel his brother, which were over the treasures of the house of the LORD.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraNot according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
Exodus
LawAnd I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years.
Exodus
LawSeventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Daniel
Major ProphetsHe sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMy soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
Psalms
PoetryThen went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.
Ruth
History / SamuelAnd it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
Genesis
LawThen said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.
Luke
GospelsAnd they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.
Genesis
Law / MosesBehold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahOf 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 EpistlesAnd Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
Jude
General EpistlesFor I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when he shewed them the entrance into the city, they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and all his family.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all quarters, he came down also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda.
Acts
HistoryWhither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.