All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
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Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.
Job
WisdomZanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, at Lachish, and the fields thereof, at Azekah, and in the villages thereof. And they dwelt from Beer-sheba unto the valley of Hinnom.
Nehemiah
HistoryBut when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.
Acts
History / LukeAnd it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis
LawBut when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?
John
Gospels / JohnThen Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.
Acts
History / LukeFor as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelMoreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
Genesis
LawGirded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:
Joshua
History / JoshuaThinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
Matthew
GospelsAnd their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
Genesis
LawAnd the princes offered for dedicating of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes offered their offering before the altar.
Numbers
LawRejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWho can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy name:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahTill I make thine enemies thy footstool.