For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;
Genesis
LawAnd Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
Genesis
LawAnd he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosSo Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsWherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
Job
WisdomLet him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD'S battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.
1 Samuel
HistoryThey were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.
Job
WisdomNevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:
Luke
Gospels / LukeWill ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWhen thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
Leviticus
LawVerily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWhat fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThen Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.
Acts
HistoryBut Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpalet,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.