And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
Lamentations
Major Prophets(For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
Numbers
LawThe God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSee, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
Deuteronomy
LawBecause they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
Numbers
LawOf how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownBut Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWhat is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThat thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
Job
WisdomI have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
John
GospelsAnd Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
Genesis
LawNow this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
Acts
History / LukeMoreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy portion of the land: the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.
Matthew
GospelsBut Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.
1 Kings
HistoryThen ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
Leviticus
LawWhatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
Exodus
Law / MosesWho raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.