For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsThe nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.
Leviticus
Law / MosesI know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.
Revelation
ApocalypticBehold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:
Revelation
ApocalypticBehold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsIn the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonSo Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanOnly be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
Deuteronomy
LawOur fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
John
GospelsFor if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
Luke
Gospels / LukeNow no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.
Matthew
GospelsAnd he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahCast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire.
Leviticus
Law / MosesMake me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.
2 Chronicles
HistoryIt is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.
Luke
GospelsBut if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.