Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHaving then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulMy soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job
WisdomFor they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
Esther
History / MordecaiMine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
Psalms
PoetryOr darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
Job
WisdomAnd the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
Matthew
GospelsYe shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
Leviticus
LawWhen Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
John
Gospels / JohnThen spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.
2 Kings
HistoryLet all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
Psalms
PoetryEliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,
2 Samuel
HistoryFor with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
Matthew
GospelsFor the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsOur necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahWhen the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,
John
Gospels / JohnNow Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
Judges
HistoryI charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonEven to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
Job
WisdomSo Joab came to the king, and told him: and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.