But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
Job
WisdomAnd they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.
1 Kings
HistoryMy breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
Job
Wisdom / JobTherefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Moses brought Aaron's sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Leviticus
LawThen shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukAnd to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnBut wisdom is justified of all her children.
Luke
Gospels / LukeOn the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer:
Numbers
LawAnd they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but destroyed it utterly, and all the souls that were therein.
Joshua
HistoryAnd the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine.
John
Gospels / JohnI have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIn the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
2 Kings
HistoryConsider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Psalms
PoetryBut Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.
Mark
GospelsEven to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:
Numbers
LawThey shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?