They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
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Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
Acts
History / LukeWhat can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
Job
Wisdom / JobHowbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
Acts
HistoryAnd being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.
Acts
History / LukeOf the children of Perez was the chief of all the captains of the host for the first month.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahSaying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
Acts
History / LukeThat he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
Psalms
PoetryBy the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesBut if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless.
Luke
Gospels / LukeYea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahTherefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesLaying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulTake, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.