Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.
Luke
GospelsThey shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
2 Chronicles
HistoryWoe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWhen the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head:
Genesis
LawAnd the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThe words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,
Numbers
LawSpikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonThen the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and it be in sight deeper than the skin; it is a leprosy broken out of the burning: wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
Leviticus
LawFret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
Psalms
PoetryO LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWithhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThis is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanTherefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsFor evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersGive them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahIt is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHeaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Matthew
GospelsThen the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.