For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThe children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWithhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
Psalms
PoetryI will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
Psalms
PoetryThou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father's house.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
Esther
HistoryWherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master's servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the morning, and have light, depart.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahMoreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesTherefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
Deuteronomy
LawThe cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.
Exodus
LawHow long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
Psalms
PoetryThe day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,