For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the people came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.
Mark
Gospels / MarkIf we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephoth-maim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining.
Joshua
HistoryLet them praise thy great and terrible name; for it is holy.
Psalms
PoetryYe shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Exodus
Law / MosesSo they two went until they came to Beth-lehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Beth-lehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?
Ruth
HistoryEphraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThese words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.
Psalms
PoetryArise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
Psalms
PoetryAnd out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with her suburbs; two cities.
Joshua
HistoryAnd he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Moza begat Binea: Rapha was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son:
1 Chronicles
HistoryAs I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielOver the camels also was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the asses was Jehdeiah the Meronothite:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraSo that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
Job
WisdomAnd it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsFor though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.