And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
Exodus
LawWe grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
Genesis
LawThe holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the LORD: and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBlessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem:
Ezra
HistoryThus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
Leviticus
LawNevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.
Esther
HistoryAnd it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the arches thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight steps.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
Numbers
LawWhen ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesI will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
Genesis
LawAnd the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsHide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:
Judges
HistoryFor by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulA sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,
2 Chronicles
History / EzraLest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.