Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBetter is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
Proverbs
WisdomWhen the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
Job
WisdomAnd we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahSaying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.
Acts
HistoryDan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.
Ezra
History / EzraThen will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBecause they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
Jonah
Minor ProphetsShe considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for your's is the kingdom of God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBenjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
Genesis
LawWhich knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which were about thirty persons.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAccording as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2 Peter
General EpistlesWe are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?