Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.
Acts
HistoryAnd delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
Acts
HistoryFor the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Acts
HistoryThou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
Psalms
PoetryFor I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersDevise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
Exodus
Law / MosesThere shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.
Deuteronomy
LawBut his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
Luke
GospelsAnd Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
Genesis
Law / MosesIf a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSee therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.
Judges
History / SamuelThe thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahTherefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary.
Matthew
GospelsAnd of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, which were expressed by name, to come and make David king.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThey say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.