When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersShe obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahFor there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.
Joshua
HistoryBut every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThere was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
John
GospelsThat thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
Acts
History / LukeAnd the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd they removed from mount Shapher, and encamped in Haradah.
Numbers
LawAnd I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraEven from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
Malachi
Minor ProphetsBut we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;
Genesis
LawAnd when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesWhen I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
John
GospelsWho is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.