I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:
Acts
History / LukeFear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe brother of Michah was Isshiah: of the sons of Isshiah; Zechariah.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
Acts
History / LukeAnd this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length shall be over against one of the portions, from the west border unto the east border.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHe shall break also the images of Beth-shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBehold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiThen I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.
Genesis
LawAs the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Solomon's Song
PoetrySo Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThis is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHe poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
Job
Wisdom / JobWho now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahHave the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWhen I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.
Mark
GospelsThen I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;