Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBecause ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the fame of David went out into all lands; and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to Mizpeh;
1 Samuel
History / SamuelShould he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
Job
Wisdom / JobThere is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulElse what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesDo ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
Psalms
PoetryAnd a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me.
Acts
History / LukeShe doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsLet every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFor the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.
Exodus
LawBut to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared.
Mark
GospelsThese are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.
Genesis
Law / MosesHow he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.