Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.
Matthew
GospelsYea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonNow therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Genesis
Law / MosesThou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThat all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
1 Samuel
HistoryWhile Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.
Acts
History / LukeAnd with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, that were called; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew not any thing.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.
Acts
History / LukeAnd from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThat in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them:
Joshua
HistoryBut I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahWhen he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
Job
WisdomThe sixteenth to Hananiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraLaying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
Luke
GospelsThere dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahSo Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.
Ruth
HistoryAccording to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnath-serah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.
Joshua
HistoryThis is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, even unto Artaxerxes the king; Thy servants the men on this side the river, and at such a time.
Ezra
HistoryFor thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.