The 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.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
1 John
General EpistlesMany daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
Proverbs
Wisdom / Solomon(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
Leviticus
LawThe woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy
LawBut her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWith clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
Job
WisdomOut of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
Job
WisdomMoreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsI have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersA foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Proverbs
WisdomThus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd again, whom should I serve? should I not serve in the presence of his son? as I have served in thy father's presence, so will I be in thy presence.
2 Samuel
HistoryThe two and twentieth to Giddalti, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
HistoryJesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.
John
Gospels / JohnNow after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraShe seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonJohn bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
John
Gospels / JohnIf a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?
John
GospelsAnd Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake.
Luke
GospelsRighteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonOne law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.