Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men:
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It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonSo stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Even by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSurely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:
Job
WisdomAnd he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
1 Samuel
HistoryBut the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
Acts
HistoryMy lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
Genesis
LawThen contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
Nehemiah
HistoryBut ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.
Luke
Gospels / LukePraising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
Acts
HistoryThe nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThe eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraSubmitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulJesus answered them, Do ye now believe?
John
Gospels / JohnWere they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god.
Judges
HistoryWhy should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.