It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
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But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother slew him.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAt thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThe LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
Acts
HistoryFor if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
Matthew
GospelsAnd of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielLikewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;
Judges
HistoryAnd the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.
2 Samuel
HistoryRebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThe LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
John
GospelsWherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.