Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Psalms
PoetryThou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
Job
WisdomAnd the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
Revelation
ApocalypticSurely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply.
Judges
HistoryThat the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
Joshua
HistoryI know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSurely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
Genesis
LawAnd they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Beth-lehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at break of day.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanGo and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
Luke
GospelsAnd they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Exodus
LawBe it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.
Ezra
History / EzraThen all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.
Joshua
HistoryAnd the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
Judges
HistoryHe that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
Luke
GospelsAnd Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis
Law / MosesBecause they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBy him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
Hebrews
General EpistlesHave mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.