For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis
Law / MosesEven those that were numbered of them after their families, were three thousand and two hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesThen shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
Matthew
GospelsAnd from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.
John
Gospels / JohnWe see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
Psalms
PoetryWith whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
Genesis
Law / MosesThou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
Psalms
PoetryAnd Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.
Luke
GospelsThou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesThe robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
Job
WisdomThe Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
Mark
Gospels / MarkSee therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelHowbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.