Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.
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Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
Acts
HistoryThe law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
Psalms
PoetryHear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to Beth-lehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?
1 Samuel
HistoryOn this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth.
Matthew
GospelsBy this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name:
Ezra
HistoryAnd when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house.
Luke
GospelsAnd for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesAnd they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass?
Luke
Gospels / LukeSeeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBehold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
Exodus
LawAnd he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Beth-maachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanConsiderest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahNow we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesTherefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.