And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me again, and shew me both it, and his habitation:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
1 Samuel
HistoryHear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.
1 Samuel
HistoryBut if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
Leviticus
Law / MosesNamely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: and if it be spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
Leviticus
LawLift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBehold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Genesis
LawRighteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
Proverbs
WisdomBut the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.
Judges
HistoryAnd all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
Exodus
LawThe princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:
Numbers
LawAnd David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraHow many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee.
Mark
GospelsAnd their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.