The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.
Job
Wisdom / JobTherefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsNot for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Deuteronomy
LawOrder my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersGive me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.
Genesis
Law / MosesThis shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.
Exodus
LawAnd Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands.
Judges
History / SamuelNow when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
Luke
GospelsAnd it came to pass also on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught: and there was a man whose right hand was withered.
Luke
GospelsWho was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulHe shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
Psalms
PoetryFor in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth.
Numbers
Law / MosesThus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
Hebrews
General EpistlesThen took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
Psalms
PoetryThe children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three.
Ezra
History / EzraIf he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen called Esther for Hatach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was.
Esther
HistoryAnd on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
Numbers
LawAnd they took the things which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people that were at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.
Judges
HistoryThere remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.