He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Acts
History / LukeAnd it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him.
Exodus
LawOpen thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsEvening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersO LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
Psalms
PoetryYet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahIn that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
Exodus
Law / MosesThou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThe eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Ezra
HistoryAnd might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahNow the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewI am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they removed from Almon-diblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
Numbers
Law / MosesNow she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulThey speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver.