For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
1 Chronicles
History / EzraTo what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Psalms
PoetryShew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.
Psalms
PoetryThine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAccording to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesGo, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
Esther
HistoryWhich were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd his brethren by Eliezer; Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomith his son.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
1 Kings
History / JeremiahJerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahWhy do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
John
Gospels / JohnThem also king David dedicated unto the LORD, with the silver and the gold that he brought from all these nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThen hear thou from the heavens, even from 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, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.
2 Chronicles
HistoryLet Israel now say, that his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich.
Luke
GospelsHowbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
Psalms
PoetryAnd against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:
1 Kings
HistoryAnd it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.