A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
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That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonI have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:
Deuteronomy
LawAnd no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.
Exodus
LawNow when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSo I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomHusbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesMoreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (of whom came the Philistines,) and Caphthorim.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.
Judges
HistoryLet the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesNow I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBecause all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD.
Numbers
LawAnd they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:
Exodus
LawAnd when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
Matthew
GospelsKeep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
Psalms
PoetryHe built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.