For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
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And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.
Judges
HistoryZanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, at Lachish, and the fields thereof, at Azekah, and in the villages thereof. And they dwelt from Beer-sheba unto the valley of Hinnom.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd there was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba. And when they had called him unto David, the king said unto him, Art thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant is he.
2 Samuel
HistoryThat our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.
Psalms
PoetryLove not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnFor as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesWhere wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
Job
Wisdom / JobI am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
Exodus
Law / MosesThy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSpeak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.
Mark
GospelsAnd thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
Exodus
Law / MosesNow Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim;
Joshua
History / JoshuaDelight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
Proverbs
WisdomThey took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd over the course of the second month was Dodai an Ahohite, and of his course was Mikloth also the ruler: in his course likewise were twenty and four thousand.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFor verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Matthew
GospelsEsteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.