Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
2 Peter
General EpistlesAnd if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThey answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
John
Gospels / JohnAll these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraO LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
Psalms
PoetryThen certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
Acts
HistoryVerily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
Matthew
GospelsA time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
Ecclesiastes
WisdomNow Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
Nehemiah
HistoryAll the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth.
Genesis
LawFor as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
James
General EpistlesThus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
Haggai
Minor Prophets / HaggaiAnd there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThen Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd he must needs go through Samaria.
John
GospelsAnd Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:
Genesis
LawBut if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
2 Kings
HistoryAlexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAfterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd having an high priest over the house of God;