While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonSeeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsOr, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
Job
WisdomThe way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHow forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
Job
WisdomChrist hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
Psalms
PoetryAnd so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.
Luke
Gospels / LukeNow therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahIf I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.
1 Samuel
HistoryThat prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
Numbers
LawYe have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHelp us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
Psalms
PoetryGive them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNow David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
Psalms
Poetry / David and others(Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:)
John
GospelsAnd the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.