And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
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And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
Matthew
GospelsAnd now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFrom the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThis is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.
Matthew
GospelsI speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWhen thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Psalms
PoetrySpeak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering;
Leviticus
LawWhosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.
Numbers
LawAnd they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
Genesis
LawSet me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBehold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
Job
WisdomAnd he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBehold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBehold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
James
General EpistlesThis shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
Leviticus
LawAnd he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
Luke
GospelsInsomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.
Acts
HistoryFor the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art, and I will commune with my father of thee; and what I see, that I will tell thee.