And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsMortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesI said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.
Psalms
PoetryHe shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.
Numbers
Law / MosesO God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHow sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHow long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
Job
WisdomBut if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.
Joshua
HistoryAnd from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsOne young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
Numbers
Law / MosesNow when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIs not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSlay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Psalms
PoetryThen are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.
1 Samuel
HistorySo Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.