For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
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And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.
Ezra
HistorySeeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonFor thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAll the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielBut man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
Job
WisdomThe king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them.
Acts
History / LukeAnd David was then in the hold, and the Philistines' garrison was then at Beth-lehem.
1 Chronicles
HistoryHath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Exodus
LawBut we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryEvil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
Amos
Minor ProphetsNeither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsEven unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsTherefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, namely, Hebron, the city of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Jokmeam with her suburbs, and Beth-horon with her suburbs,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
Deuteronomy
LawOf a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBut I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.