If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
John
Gospels / JohnThe men of Beth-el and Ai, two hundred twenty and three.
Ezra
History / EzraCast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomBut king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd I besought thy disciples to cast him out; and they could not.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, an hundred fourscore and eight.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahNow Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.
Acts
HistoryAnd I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
Daniel
Major ProphetsEven us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
Romans
Pauline EpistlesHear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
Psalms
PoetryThe seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIt shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
Genesis
Law / MosesAll these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,
Joshua
History / JoshuaThe word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that the LORD hath avenged him of his enemies.
2 Samuel
HistoryBut if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAlso Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.