My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.
Numbers
LawHappy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:
Psalms
PoetryAnd when the ten heard it, they began to be much displeased with James and John.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBy which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFor God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
Acts
History / LukeAnd after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.
Judges
HistoryAnd I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
2 Kings
History / JeremiahLo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.
1 Kings
HistoryI will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsAnd the sons of Micah were, Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz.
1 Chronicles
HistoryShould it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.
Job
WisdomAnd answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
2 Chronicles
HistoryIn all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWhithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.
Judges
HistoryFor, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not their's.