For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahTheir knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBlessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
Judges
HistoryAnd they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThen there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me,
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielBut I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
Psalms
PoetryAnd thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Mark
Gospels / MarkForasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.
Daniel
Major ProphetsThus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
1 Samuel
HistoryOut of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
Job
Wisdom / JobIt is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
Genesis
LawEye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
Exodus
LawFor Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
1 Samuel
HistoryThen thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
Job
WisdomAnd why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.