When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.
Esther
History / MordecaiBut I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Matthew
GospelsIn these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
John
GospelsWhen thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy
LawFor the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
John
Gospels / JohnMy meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryAnd with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / Jeremiah(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Genesis
LawAnd it came to pass, when he was come nigh to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount called the mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.
Mark
GospelsAnd Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahAnd I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBut if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.
Numbers
LawBehold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for the which I have made provision.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
Job
WisdomAnd Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which were about thirty persons.