Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
Matthew
GospelsHe that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahWherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
Genesis
LawAnd he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.
Matthew
GospelsAnd say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsTake counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
Genesis
Law / MosesThus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:
Judges
HistoryBe of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seemeth him good.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Genesis
LawAnd his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
Numbers
LawFor there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Job
WisdomAnd Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's children, saying,
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBut of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of his chariots and horsemen.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.