If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Beth-lehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSo they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.
John
GospelsAnd he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
Mark
GospelsAnd if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiWherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own house.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old and stricken in age:
Joshua
HistoryNow the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying,
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
Exodus
LawAnd he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWhen one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesWhen the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
Job
Wisdom / JobThe king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
Genesis
Law / MosesNow the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
Hebrews
General EpistlesProviding for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him,
Acts
History / LukeAnd Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.
Ruth
HistoryAnd God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.