Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
Psalms
PoetryThe glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works.
Psalms
PoetryIn the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
Luke
GospelsMine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahCause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThere is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonLittle children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.
John
GospelsAnd the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
Revelation
ApocalypticThis man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.
Acts
History / LukeHelp, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIf any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
Titus
Pauline EpistlesNow also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
Psalms
PoetryMy love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonO LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWho will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsFine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.