So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.
1 Chronicles
HistoryNeither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke;
Deuteronomy
LawSo they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
Matthew
GospelsTherefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHouse and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThen went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:
Exodus
Law / MosesThen they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.
John
GospelsWoe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewMy confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
Psalms
PoetryNeither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBut every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
Genesis
Law / MosesSo Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.
Ruth
History / SamuelBut the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
Exodus
LawIf I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
Job
WisdomAnd the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.