For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.
Daniel
Major ProphetsBlessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersGet thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
1 Kings
HistoryBe not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
Psalms
PoetryAnd all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
Mark
GospelsThus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThey that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsAnd the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahNow is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
John
GospelsCry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.
Numbers
LawAnd God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.
Genesis
Law / MosesHear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.
Acts
HistoryThe men of Beth-el and Ai, two hundred twenty and three.
Ezra
History / EzraThere is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAll scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulThus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahA little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
Psalms
PoetryThen Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.