But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
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But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
Exodus
LawThe eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.
Acts
History / LukeThen Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Acts
HistoryNo, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAll therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewNow the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.
1 Chronicles
HistoryHowl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWhich none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
Acts
History / LukeAnd he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
2 Kings
History(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBlessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem:
Ezra
HistoryNow they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.
Acts
HistoryWhosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnAnd at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.
Luke
GospelsAnd it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,
Luke
GospelsAnd now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
Joshua
HistoryAnd he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
Numbers
Law / MosesHer young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.