But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
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Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHappy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Psalms
PoetryA land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesI pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWoe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAnd if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnswer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAt what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulMake a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
Psalms
PoetryThese are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
Exodus
Law / MosesAgree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
Matthew
GospelsThen Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself. To morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.
Matthew
GospelsWrite the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraPhilip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.