And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
James
General EpistlesFor thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
Ezra
HistoryAnd afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
Numbers
Law / MosesSo there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
Joshua
History / JoshuaDestroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.
Psalms
PoetryThe LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh; Iru, Elah, and Naam: and the sons of Elah, even Kenaz.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBecause thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahI am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.
Solomon's Song
PoetryFor Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven,
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites, and with him were three thousand and seven hundred;
1 Chronicles
HistoryOne is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsNow there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
Genesis
LawAnd when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
Genesis
LawThey shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWhile I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
John
Gospels / JohnEven the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial.