And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.
Psalms
PoetryAnd after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:
2 Chronicles
HistoryNow these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish: and they were among the mighty men, helpers of the war.
1 Chronicles
HistoryWhen saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
Nehemiah
HistoryFor a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThey shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
2 Chronicles
HistoryWilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?
Psalms
PoetryBut that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
Luke
Gospels / LukeTherefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielComfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSo shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
Genesis
LawThat the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were numbered, offered:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not unto him, nor consent.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.
Exodus
Law / MosesTo execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryAnd ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:
James
General Epistles / JamesWhereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
Job
WisdomBehold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd of the sons of Immer; Hanani, and Zebadiah.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;