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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I?
Matthew
GospelsFor I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Luke
GospelsAnd on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahFor I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.
Exodus
LawHenceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulI made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
Psalms
PoetryFor we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
Ezra
History / EzraHow he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?
Mark
GospelsAgain, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, The LORD hath not chosen these.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
2 Chronicles
HistoryLest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThis is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the vulture, and the kite after his kind;
Leviticus
LawAnd in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.
1 Kings
HistoryThen they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
Hebrews
General EpistlesBut thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelWho now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church: