Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
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Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahTo him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
1 Kings
HistoryEvery one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
Proverbs
WisdomWherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAfter these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
Esther
History / MordecaiAre ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
2 Kings
HistoryBut they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd when even was come, the ship was in the midst of the sea, and he alone on the land.
Mark
GospelsAnd have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraIf I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
Job
WisdomBefore thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah.
Joshua
History / JoshuaWhen he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
Judges
HistoryAnd when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
John
Gospels / JohnI have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
Deuteronomy
LawHe that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
John
Gospels / JohnNow therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.