And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this?
Ruth
History / SamuelTherefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahShe hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the altar.
Leviticus
Law / MosesWoe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSo the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
Acts
History / LukeI will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
Psalms
PoetryBut in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAll the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.
Esther
HistoryGive out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThey brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.
John
Gospels / JohnNeither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.
Leviticus
Law / MosesYe shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
Leviticus
Law / MosesWhen a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesO Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.