For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
Job
Wisdom / JobHe that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
Proverbs
WisdomAll this, said David, the LORD made me understand in writing by his hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
Judges
HistoryAnd he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
1 Kings
HistoryHe preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
Job
Wisdom / JobThy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd while he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came: and Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for thou art a valiant man, and bringest good tidings.
1 Kings
HistoryYea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsI know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Proverbs
WisdomAll these of the sons of Obed-edom: they and their sons and their brethren, able men for strength for the service, were threescore and two of Obed-edom.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraGive not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.
Luke
GospelsBecause thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThey were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNeither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.