I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraNow king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
1 Kings
HistoryBehold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
Psalms
PoetryBehold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSo Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
Genesis
LawAnd the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelO LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
Deuteronomy
LawAnd one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahTherefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
Solomon's Song
PoetryThe lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / Ezekiel(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)
Acts
History / LukeHear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
Isaiah
Major Prophets(And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.
2 Kings
HistoryOf this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBut go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
Genesis
LawAnd it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.