It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
James
General EpistlesAnd there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
2 Chronicles
History / EzraTill he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
Job
WisdomAnd because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)
Acts
HistoryAnd the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnHe looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
Job
WisdomTherefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
1 Kings
HistoryA virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings upon the four corners that were in the four feet thereof.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThey part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersShall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
Psalms
PoetryAnd he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was with him.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThen sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
Judges
HistoryThen the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and it be in sight deeper than the skin; it is a leprosy broken out of the burning: wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
Leviticus
LawI saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
Acts
History / LukeFor he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.