I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.
Genesis
LawBut Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
Judges
HistoryOn the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
Esther
History / MordecaiTherefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.
Judges
HistoryAnd he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
2 Samuel
HistoryThey shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,
Joshua
History / JoshuaI tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Luke
GospelsTherefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
Luke
GospelsAnd Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.
Matthew
GospelsMoreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
Psalms
PoetryCome, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
Genesis
LawAnd Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHis substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Moza begat Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraA soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Proverbs
WisdomMoreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.
Exodus
Law / MosesNow, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?