Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
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And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?
Luke
Gospels / LukeJustice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielIf mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus
Law / MosesMy kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Job
Wisdom / JobMoreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
Psalms
PoetryNor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
John
Gospels / JohnTherefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahYe ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
James
General Epistles / JamesFor thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.
Esther
History / MordecaiFor thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSo we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumNow these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
Judges
HistoryAnd God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
2 Kings
HistoryThy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
Psalms
PoetrySpeaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon,
Ruth
History / SamuelAnd Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAlso regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is your's.