We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:
Exodus
Law / MosesFor God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomI will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsCanst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
Job
Wisdom / JobHe that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
Genesis
LawBut we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesThy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.
Psalms
PoetryAt the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Daniel continued even unto the first year of king Cyrus.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went to the battle.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraKings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.
Psalms
PoetryWho provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
Acts
History / LukeThe black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsThus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;