For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
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Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Luke
GospelsWhereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
Job
WisdomThis Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make ye a league with us.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThe LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIf I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
Job
WisdomPersecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesIn whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielSo Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesTremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, he went and entered into the castle, and told Paul.
Acts
HistoryAnd straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
Matthew
GospelsThat the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
Genesis
Law / MosesSo Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAgain he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.
Judges
History / SamuelMoreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThey have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
Psalms
PoetryFor a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
Proverbs
WisdomA people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai.