And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Genesis
LawI applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonHast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
2 Kings
HistoryI pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
John
GospelsThis is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
John
GospelsThen the proud waters had gone over our soul.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahTherefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
Job
WisdomWhoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesO LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
Nehemiah
HistoryCan that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Job
Wisdom / JobBut if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.
Exodus
LawAnd the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is our God.
Joshua
HistoryNow the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
Exodus
Law / MosesThree bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three bowls made like almonds in another branch, a knop and a flower: so throughout the six branches going out of the candlestick.
Exodus
LawFrom the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.