Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
Psalms
PoetryAnd David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanIf thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnswer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonSo now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?
Judges
HistoryHe saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.
Matthew
GospelsMoreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
2 Samuel
HistoryFor Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahAnd it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Genesis
Law / MosesI will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
Psalms
PoetryBut when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
Esther
HistoryAnd his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBut Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWith whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them;
Joshua
History / JoshuaTherefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
John
GospelsWilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
Job
Wisdom / Job(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulUnto the rest of the children of Merari were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmon with her suburbs, Tabor with her suburbs:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBehold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods: