And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.
1 Samuel
HistorySo foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
Psalms
PoetryGood and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBe not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
Proverbs
WisdomHowbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanIf her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
Exodus
LawThe rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
Exodus
LawNow the city was large and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahHow hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?
Numbers
Law / MosesRemember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
Job
WisdomFor he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulNow she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesFor the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:
Hosea
Minor ProphetsBut Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
Mark
Gospels / MarkNow in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:
Psalms
PoetryBut he spake of the temple of his body.
John
GospelsThen his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.
Judges
History / SamuelFor there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesElse, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast: