John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
Proverbs
WisdomThe desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
Proverbs
WisdomThen they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
Acts
History / LukeThat thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,
Acts
History / LukeYe yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
John
Gospels / JohnBetter is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomWhen I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.
Daniel
Major ProphetsThen came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.
1 Chronicles
HistoryTherefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
Exodus
LawSaying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Acts
History / LukeOn the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work therein:
Numbers
Law / MosesWherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesSo foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
Psalms
PoetryHe becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Proverbs
WisdomI and my Father are one.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.