The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the LORD, which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHe hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahRehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
Ezra
History / EzraIf, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSo the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThis is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalms
PoetryAnd their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.
Nehemiah
HistoryThou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
Deuteronomy
LawJehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahTherefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsWhen they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
Job
WisdomBut if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.
Exodus
Law / MosesMeraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
1 Chronicles
HistoryWith whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.
Genesis
LawWhen it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,
Ezra
History / EzraAnd they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole.
Joshua
HistoryMay be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesThe LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.
1 Samuel
HistoryA stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.