And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Job
WisdomTherefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersDo good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;
Matthew
GospelsThou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Job
WisdomAnd it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Exodus
LawAnd the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is our God.
Joshua
HistoryAnd Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.
Judges
History / SamuelHe hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
Job
WisdomAnd the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers
Law / MosesWherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTill I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAs the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
Hebrews
General EpistlesTherefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.
Daniel
Major ProphetsBut the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.
Exodus
LawThen said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.