This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
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And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
Numbers
LawAnd David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelLet the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahPaul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
Romans
Pauline EpistlesI say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
Luke
GospelsAs for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahRemembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThat they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy
LawDid Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWhen the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD'S house.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHe ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock:
Numbers
LawBut the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
2 Kings
HistoryThis twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
Genesis
LawThy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.