Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
Genesis
LawFor he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.
Exodus
Law / MosesHowbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulJustice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOut of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesIn his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNotwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
Numbers
LawAnd it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city: and, behold, when he and the people that is with him come out against thee, then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt find occasion.
Judges
History / SamuelLet his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAll these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd they made signs to his father, how he would have him called.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar.
Leviticus
Law / MosesYe have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
John
GospelsWho hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
Job
WisdomAnd I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah:
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
Revelation
ApocalypticFor whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?