But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?
Luke
Gospels / LukeO give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
PoetryWho had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
Esther
HistoryBut her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
Proverbs
WisdomBut, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.
Amos
Minor ProphetsHave we not power to eat and to drink?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesNow these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
Genesis
Law / MosesThou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd of these cities which ye shall give six cities shall ye have for refuge.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod before it.
Exodus
LawFor what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
Ecclesiastes
WisdomMake their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,
Genesis
Law / MosesSee, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Beth-aven.
1 Samuel
HistoryBut not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram,
Numbers
LawBow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot: and he also was the son of the giant.