They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
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Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him an house.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraHe appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.
Psalms
PoetryFor there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonBut if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
Leviticus
Law / MosesPraise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the heights.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
Acts
HistoryFrom the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
2 Chronicles
HistoryWho hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahVerily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
John
Gospels / JohnThe spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThe yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
Genesis
Law / MosesFor if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulOn the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali, offered:
Numbers
LawThe ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsUmmah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages.
Joshua
HistoryWhen thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.