But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
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LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
Psalms
PoetryThen 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
Gospels / LukeAnd a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAll things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewTherefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
Job
Wisdom / JobTake ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesIn meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulWherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.
Judges
HistoryTherefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.
2 Samuel
HistoryLet my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word.
Psalms
PoetryDavid therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThen said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father?
John
Gospels / JohnBut as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.
Numbers
Law / MosesMoreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD:
Leviticus
LawWhich make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
Job
WisdomAnd they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first.