If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.
1 Kings
HistoryBehold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
James
General EpistlesAnd he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
Psalms
PoetryA woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
John
GospelsWe have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see:
Luke
GospelsAnd Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Shavsha was scribe;
1 Chronicles
History / EzraHim that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.
Genesis
LawAnd I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.
1 Samuel
HistoryFrom whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
James
General EpistlesAnd thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:
Exodus
LawAnd now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,
Ezra
HistoryAnd the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWhen the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
Deuteronomy
LawFor in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)
Exodus
LawAnd he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.
Genesis
LawAnd I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
Revelation
ApocalypticThat thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?