The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.
Judges
History / SamuelSo likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
Luke
GospelsShew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.
Psalms
PoetryFor if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;
James
General Epistles / JamesBut overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
Exodus
LawThere is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahOf Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.
Numbers
Law / MosesWe have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAlso he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraI understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThose that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
Numbers
LawAnd he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThe grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD,
2 Chronicles
HistoryBut in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
Daniel
Major ProphetsThen Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself. To morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.