For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
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For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnWoe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction,
Job
WisdomI will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:
Genesis
Law / MosesThey say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes.
Joshua
History / JoshuaJesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy
LawAnd it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.
Deuteronomy
LawThe great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
Deuteronomy
LawHath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
2 Kings
HistoryHear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.
Micah
Minor ProphetsO generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
Numbers
LawAnd the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
Daniel
Major ProphetsFor whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.
Luke
GospelsThat I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;