And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
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Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAnd so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.
Genesis
Law / MosesWhereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
Exodus
LawI will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe children of Arah, six hundred fifty and two.
Nehemiah
HistoryFor these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.
Acts
HistoryAnd Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaThen said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahTherefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course, and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possession of the king, and of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men, unto Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
Joshua
HistoryTo the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulSo king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon: and Solomon said unto him, Go to thine house.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.