Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanNeither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
Genesis
LawWith him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
Luke
GospelsYet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
1 Peter
General EpistlesAnd gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?
Luke
GospelsWith the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
2 Samuel
HistoryDoth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
Job
WisdomAnd the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:
Mark
Gospels / MarkFor thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonSo I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeFear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAmong the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.