My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
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For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
Deuteronomy
LawAnd if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of him that hath the plague from his head even to his foot, wheresoever the priest looketh;
Leviticus
LawBut the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.
Joshua
HistoryI will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the LORD.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs,
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnWho knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
Psalms
PoetryAnd what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?
1 Peter
General EpistlesThey have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonIf any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHe made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.
Psalms
PoetryIn the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
Leviticus
LawThen Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and thence depart.
Luke
GospelsAnd Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to the children of Judah.