Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesFor he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
James
General EpistlesSave me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.
Obadiah
Minor ProphetsTherefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
LawBut when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd they had in their inheritance Beer-sheba, or Sheba, and Moladah,
Joshua
HistoryThe Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:
Psalms
PoetryAnd the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, and the rereward came after the ark, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThe sons of Simeon were, Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became David's servants. Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAmaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages,
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.
Acts
HistoryWe know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnAnd the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Job
Wisdom / JobThy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonHowbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.
Acts
HistoryThey shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: