Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
Job
Wisdom / JobBeat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Joel
Minor ProphetsBehold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahMake their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahPeradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
Genesis
LawSo the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
Joshua
HistoryExcellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
Genesis
LawBut when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
Luke
GospelsFor thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.
Psalms
PoetryThere is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHe looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.
Psalms
PoetryBut a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
Titus
Pauline EpistlesSo is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Ishpan, and Heber, and Eliel,
1 Chronicles
HistoryNow therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.
Genesis
LawAnd there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.
Numbers
LawWatch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Matthew
GospelsBut ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without blemish: