And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsAnd the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and sin not against the LORD in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew them there.
1 Samuel
HistoryWe are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThis is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd they departed into a desert place by ship privately.
Mark
Gospels / MarkBut the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelKnowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
Matthew
GospelsThou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
Leviticus
LawBecause ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAgain, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAlthough affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
Job
WisdomAnd we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.
Genesis
LawThe men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
Luke
Gospels / Luke(For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD.
Joshua
HistoryBut I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.
Amos
Minor ProphetsConsider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped him.