But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the king said, Enquire thou whose son the stripling is.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.
Psalms
PoetryIf it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.
Esther
History / MordecaiI am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAs it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulShould it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.
Job
Wisdom / JobLet your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWhat is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
Psalms
PoetryThe nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
Job
Wisdom / JobTherefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
Deuteronomy
LawYet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Job
WisdomIn the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.
Esther
HistoryIn weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesA lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonLet not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.
Psalms
PoetryFor we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)