But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
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But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
2 Kings
HistoryBut prophesy not again any more at Beth-el: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosFor they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Exodus
LawFor God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.
Solomon's Song
PoetryYea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
Psalms
PoetryThe Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
Matthew
GospelsAnd he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Genesis
Law / MosesThis man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
Acts
HistoryAnd the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.
Judges
History / SamuelLet thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Proverbs
WisdomUnto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahSo shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
Proverbs
WisdomBut the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the LORD for a drink offering.
Numbers
Law / MosesHe removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
Psalms
PoetryAnd said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.
John
Gospels / JohnA man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;