And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHe is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
Job
WisdomGo to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
James
General EpistlesFurthermore Elihu answered and said,
Job
WisdomAnd they gave unto them, of the cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs; they gave also Gezer with her suburbs,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which was at Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia:
Acts
HistoryAnd in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
Luke
GospelsBehold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulIn the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:
1 Kings
HistoryFor since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesWhen Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.
John
GospelsAnd certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.
Luke
GospelsAfter him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Beth-zur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty.
Nehemiah
HistoryThen answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request is;
Esther
HistoryBut of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
Mark
GospelsAnd the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulI am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.