But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Matthew
GospelsThen Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThey lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHe croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
Psalms
PoetryThe beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonTherefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsTo turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, Is not the arrow beyond thee?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAll thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.
Judges
HistoryAnd he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielNow the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah, who with his brethren and sons were twelve:
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.
Judges
History / SamuelNo weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahYet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job
WisdomAnd I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAnd the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.
Luke
Gospels / LukeOn the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali, offered:
Numbers
Law / MosesThe shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.