For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
Esther
History / MordecaiI tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThese are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Numbers
Law / MosesFree among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.
Exodus
Law / MosesMy soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.
Matthew
GospelsSixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThey have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahMoreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnWhen Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!
John
GospelsAnd the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.
Deuteronomy
LawLest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonI sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
Solomon's Song
PoetryLo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:
Acts
HistoryQuicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.