So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.
Psalms
PoetryThen said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto the king, Return thou, and all thy servants.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
Genesis
LawNow therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
Numbers
LawThen Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
Judges
History / SamuelAmmiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the eighth: for God blessed him.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThat he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsPraise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
Psalms
PoetryWherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewYour iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.
2 Kings
HistoryThey shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesI was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
Psalms
PoetryBut as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
2 Kings
HistoryBut take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThere is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
Deuteronomy
LawNevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsMine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsIf thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?