What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
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On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,
Deuteronomy
LawAnd these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest,
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.
Judges
HistoryAnd his servants spake yet more against the LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)
2 Samuel
HistoryThou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;
Obadiah
Minor Prophets / ObadiahAnd the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed on to Timnah:
Joshua
HistoryWhose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
1 Peter
General EpistlesAnd they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah.
Numbers
LawAnd thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesSo they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them?
Luke
GospelsDeliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.
Genesis
Law / MosesJoab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThe one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulEvery man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
Deuteronomy
LawFor when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
Numbers
LawAnd Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
Exodus
Law / MosesSo the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahWherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: