Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:
Matthew
GospelsI give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesThou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him.
Acts
HistoryHe sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
Philemon
Pauline EpistlesSalute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesHe gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
Genesis
Law / MosesExcept it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went to the battle.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.
Numbers
LawAnd the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
Amos
Minor ProphetsBut let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesRemember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him.
Acts
History / LukeHe shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.
Joshua
HistoryAnd this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness.