Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
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And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsIn that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahEven from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.
Joshua
HistoryThe next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.
1 Kings
HistoryIf a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
Exodus
LawThat I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulOf which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterThat thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
Deuteronomy
LawReturn, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAll that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.
Exodus
LawThe discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
Genesis
LawHe hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant.
Psalms
PoetryTheir sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLikewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.
Genesis
LawThen the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBut the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
Judges
HistoryEven so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying.