Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1 Kings
HistoryBehold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.
Solomon's Song
PoetryFor I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.
Ruth
HistoryHe shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
1 Samuel
HistoryNow as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armour;
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBaalah, and Iim, and Azem,
Joshua
History / JoshuaThough wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
Job
WisdomHope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Proverbs
WisdomThen he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction,
Job
Wisdom / JobFor ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
Esther
History / MordecaiFor I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAnd though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe children of Gibbar, ninety and five.
Ezra
History / EzraBut the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
Mark
GospelsFor the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.
Psalms
PoetryI have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?