Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.
Genesis
LawOf the sons of Hashum; Mattenai, Mattathah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.
Ezra
HistoryThese are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
James
General Epistles / JamesBut if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
Leviticus
LawBut Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd they departed from Kibroth-hattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth.
Numbers
Law / MosesThe same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,
Acts
History / LukeAnd that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAs for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
Luke
GospelsAnd there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahUpon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahCease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis;
Acts
HistoryBut the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD.