Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head?
Judges
HistoryOur inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut thou, LORD, art most high for evermore.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king.
Esther
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
2 Kings
HistoryThey shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWhich remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWho will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
Psalms
PoetryLo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
Job
WisdomTheir children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThere shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.
Proverbs
WisdomBeloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnAnd they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsCome, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWhat is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThen I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.
Nehemiah
HistoryI am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
Psalms
PoetryAnd this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesHe holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am.
Judges
HistoryTo a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.