This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
Luke
GospelsMoreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.
Numbers
LawRemembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.
1 Samuel
HistoryShe sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahUnless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.
Mark
GospelsYet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Revelation
ApocalypticThen said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Matthew
GospelsFor this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Matthew
GospelsI also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
Job
WisdomAnd he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahOur fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
Psalms
PoetryThe simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
Proverbs
WisdomThen spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:
Genesis
LawThese mentioned by their names were princes in their families: and the house of their fathers increased greatly.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.