To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
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Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
Proverbs
WisdomFlee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
Mark
GospelsThen hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.
Haggai
Minor Prophets / HaggaiBut when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.
Judges
HistoryThen all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
Matthew
GospelsMoreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd when all Jabesh-gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,
1 Chronicles
HistoryThese are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.
Numbers
LawAnd Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:
Numbers
LawAnd he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
Genesis
LawAnd they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
Job
Wisdom / JobI am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
John
Gospels / JohnGod hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
LawWhen they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.
Acts
History / LukeThere are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesGreat in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
Leviticus
LawAnd Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
Genesis
LawFor the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.