A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThe children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand and eight hundred and eighteen.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahFor I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHave mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBut Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelA glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,
Exodus
Law / MosesI will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation.
Psalms
PoetryThere is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomSpeak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it is most holy.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail:
Exodus
Law / MosesNow the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,
1 Kings
HistoryThe prince of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
Numbers
Law / MosesThese were heads of the fathers, by their generations, chief men. These dwelt in Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomShould thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
Job
WisdomFor we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;