I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
1 Kings
HistoryOh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psalms
PoetryAnd Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things:
Luke
GospelsAnd the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
Judges
HistoryAnd God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.
Exodus
LawConsider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
Luke
GospelsAnd he put them all together into ward three days.
Genesis
LawAnd ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the altar of burnt offering with all his furniture, and the laver and his foot,
Exodus
LawHear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
Psalms
PoetryAnd I besought the LORD at that time, saying,
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
Genesis
LawNevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.
Leviticus
LawNow Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD'S house.
2 Chronicles
HistoryHe sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Psalms
PoetrySaying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.