Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
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I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor ProphetsIn the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Genesis
LawAnd if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHer prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahMany daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin: but he walked therein.
2 Kings
HistoryThen he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahI have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiAnd that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.
Job
Wisdom / JobTherefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say again, Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between us and you.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Numbers
LawAnd the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,
2 Chronicles
HistoryBut it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.
Exodus
LawPraise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThere is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
Exodus
LawTake, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.