My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.
1 Chronicles
HistoryHear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,
Acts
History / LukeHear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnWhen Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
Matthew
GospelsAnd afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof En-hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.
Judges
HistoryHe hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
Job
Wisdom / JobSeeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesNow therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy
LawI therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesYe are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWhich Shelomith and his brethren were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the chief fathers, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had dedicated.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
Judges
History / SamuelSon of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Psalms
PoetryFor the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.