My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.
Judges
HistoryI beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBlow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?
Mark
Gospels / Mark(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraVerily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:
Acts
History / LukeMoreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
Deuteronomy
LawFor we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
Job
WisdomAnd not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulHe delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
Job
WisdomAnd there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.