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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That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonSing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahAnd he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiIn righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
Leviticus
Law / MosesTheir brethren also the Levites were appointed unto all manner of service of the tabernacle of the house of God.
1 Chronicles
HistoryIt was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
Solomon's Song
PoetryLet Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him.
Mark
GospelsNow there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
Acts
HistoryAnd this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.
Micah
Minor ProphetsI will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
Psalms
PoetryEvery man may see it; man may behold it afar off.
Job
WisdomThou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAnd it was so, that when they that bare the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
Genesis
Law / MosesI said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesLay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
Genesis
LawWho goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.