They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me.
1 Samuel
HistoryAlso to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.
Proverbs
WisdomThe wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
1 Peter
General EpistlesAnd, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias:
Luke
GospelsThey die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
Job
WisdomAll his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
Exodus
Law / MosesThen Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.
Matthew
GospelsFor it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:
Luke
Gospels / LukeExcept the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThat the LORD spake unto me, saying,
Deuteronomy
LawNo meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.
Leviticus
Law / MosesYe shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus
Law / MosesI behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
Psalms
PoetryAnd, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.
Judges
History / SamuelI will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.
Psalms
PoetryThe Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.
Ezra
HistoryAnd he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.