And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? it had been good for me to have been there still: now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be any iniquity in me, let him kill me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Judges
HistoryAnd when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get victuals: for we are here in a desert place.
Luke
GospelsWhen ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
Matthew
GospelsAnd in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you?
Mark
GospelsFor to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesMake thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Genesis
Law / MosesMake me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;
John
GospelsAnd John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;
Mark
GospelsThe heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
Psalms
PoetryAnd ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
James
General Epistles / JamesHe shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
Proverbs
WisdomThis spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me.
John
GospelsJohn bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
John
GospelsWhen I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNow his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
Luke
GospelsWhether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the LORD our God.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, I-chabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD'S priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelOf the Amramites, and the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the Uzzielites:
1 Chronicles
HistoryAsk thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.