Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
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That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
Matthew
GospelsAnd this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulMy bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
Job
Wisdom / JobNeither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesDepart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
Exodus
LawAnd they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielJoel the chief, and Shapham the next, and Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and shewest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWhen they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him.
Acts
HistoryAnd, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and Saul said, What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelYet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
Psalms
PoetryBut Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielYea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
Job
WisdomNow therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd 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
HistoryWhen the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSimon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.