Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
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Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass offering:
Leviticus
Law / MosesSeeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
Numbers
LawAs I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThat Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
Exodus
LawFor all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut.
Acts
History / LukeIf ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with her suburbs, Abdon with her suburbs,
Joshua
HistoryI said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
John
GospelsAnd he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSeest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof.
Exodus
LawAnd they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders.
1 Chronicles
HistoryLet thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
Psalms
PoetrySo then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.