I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Job
WisdomFor of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesWherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.
Judges
History / SamuelThe full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonO my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThere dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd she had a garment of divers colours upon her: for with such robes were the king's daughters that were virgins apparelled. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanO Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the third took her; and in like manner the seven also: and they left no children, and died.
Luke
GospelsDo not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
Matthew
GospelsYe shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesOf these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth.
Luke
Gospels / LukeHe smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
2 Kings
HistoryTell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAnd we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
Genesis
LawAnd David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.