But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:
Judges
History / SamuelFor thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psalms
PoetryTwo and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThe wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelSpeak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it is most holy.
Leviticus
LawAt midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersEsau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;
Genesis
Law / MosesIf I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
Job
WisdomThe God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAs long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
Leviticus
LawWhich came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
Ezra
HistoryAnd the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.
Judges
History / SamuelYour iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.
Mark
GospelsThey understood not that he spake to them of the Father.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house.
Luke
GospelsFor they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
Leviticus
Law / MosesGet you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewA voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.