Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
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And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour?
Mark
Gospels / MarkYe shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
Deuteronomy
LawFor thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTherefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewLet us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
2 Kings
HistoryFor he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
Mark
GospelsAlso Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelLest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
Genesis
LawIn the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBut when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.
John
GospelsTo many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him.
Numbers
LawFor if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
Luke
GospelsThe priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThe Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
Luke
Gospels / LukeI will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
Psalms
PoetryBut if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.
Numbers
LawAnd as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?