But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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1 Kings
HistoryI remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryFor, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Beth-aven.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelLet mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
LawTeach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
Genesis
LawI have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
Psalms
PoetryIf they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBe it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations.
Ezra
HistoryAnd speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahWherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Selahammahlekoth.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Exodus
LawAnd Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.
Judges
HistoryThe fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
Proverbs
WisdomThen he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build an house for the LORD God of Israel.
1 Chronicles
HistoryWhat man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
Psalms
PoetryAnd the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.