John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations.
Ezra
History / EzraThen was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThen said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this?
Ruth
HistoryA froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.
Psalms
PoetryAnd in his name shall the Gentiles trust.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
1 Samuel
HistoryHow shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
Genesis
Law / MosesWho hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?
Job
WisdomWhen they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThese things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
John
Gospels / JohnMy times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
Psalms
PoetryFor death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.
Acts
History / LukeAnd as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd now, O Lord GOD, thou art that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThe Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThen the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him: