They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
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If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonManasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.
Judges
History / SamuelBut Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had smitten him.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.
Mark
Gospels / MarkHe turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
Psalms
PoetryThen the proud waters had gone over our soul.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.
Exodus
Law / MosesSo when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.
John
GospelsBut after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
Ezra
HistorySo will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.
John
GospelsThen the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards.
Numbers
LawAnd they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAwake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
Psalms
PoetryYe ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
James
General EpistlesAnd thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.