The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraIsrael was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThey shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelEnlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.
Ruth
HistoryAnd Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith.
Genesis
LawAnd the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
1 Kings
HistoryGlory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Luke
GospelsAnd now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
John
GospelsAnd weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:
Ezra
History / EzraNow unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahHowbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulSo David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesAt thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Nebuzar-adan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth.
1 Kings
HistoryThat which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Jesus went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged him.
Mark
GospelsNevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;