They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Hebrews
General EpistlesHe shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
Job
Wisdom / JobZion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come people down from the top of the mountains. And Zebul said unto him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.
Judges
History / SamuelUntil the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you.
Deuteronomy
LawWhom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
Acts
HistoryBut be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
Matthew
GospelsAnd he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the LORD.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he brought also the brasen altar, which was before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.
Luke
Gospels / LukeA gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.
Proverbs
WisdomYe shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.
Leviticus
Law / MosesSo went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahFor he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBut that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house.
Luke
GospelsThen the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielFor ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.