Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
Job
WisdomBut I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.
Job
WisdomAnd he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:
Genesis
LawMoab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahExalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
2 Samuel
HistoryThe nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
Leviticus
Law / MosesOn that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.
Esther
HistoryThine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonThey that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaThese are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
Deuteronomy
LawAll my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
Job
WisdomAnd he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.
Exodus
LawFar above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee:
Genesis
LawThese things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Psalms
PoetryMoreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:
1 Samuel
HistoryWhich also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
Acts
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
Exodus
Law / MosesHath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples,