Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAn evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
Proverbs
WisdomEphraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
Ecclesiastes
WisdomNow when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)
Esther
History / MordecaiI am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahOffer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryFor my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHe that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:
Exodus
Law / MosesJesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
John
Gospels / JohnGreet Mary, who bestowed much labour on us.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulClaudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix sendeth greeting.
Acts
HistoryAnd when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.
Luke
GospelsNow Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.
Job
WisdomIs this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that thou succour us out of the city.
2 Samuel
HistoryThou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Psalms
PoetryEkron, with her towns and her villages:
Joshua
HistoryBut if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
James
General EpistlesBut rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsCut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.