I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
Acts
History / LukeWoe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Matthew
GospelsThen said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.
Daniel
Major ProphetsFor by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory.
2 Samuel
HistorySo the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
Matthew
GospelsThat ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesTherefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe sons of Jehieli; Zetham, and Joel his brother, which were over the treasures of the house of the LORD.
1 Chronicles
HistoryWhere the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
Esther
History / MordecaiDestroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.
Psalms
PoetryThen the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?
Esther
HistoryAnd for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
Genesis
Law / MosesThou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Leviticus
LawWoe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahNow I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAre not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.
2 Kings
HistoryFor, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.