But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
Genesis
Law / MosesLet his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Psalms
PoetryBut the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD;)
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
Mark
Gospels / MarkBut he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Matthew
GospelsHe hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
Job
WisdomBehold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThey shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThese are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
Deuteronomy
LawO my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAcquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
Job
Wisdom / JobAs long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut sought to the LORD God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsAnd the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the south coast.
Joshua
History / JoshuaOn that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.
Esther
HistoryFor in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
Matthew
GospelsAnd they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.