Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Exodus
LawAnd one of the same place answered and said, But who is their father? Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for an heave offering unto the LORD, and it shall be the priest's that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIf a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAs for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
Psalms
PoetryAnd if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAs Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims.
2 Samuel
HistoryDedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThe king's favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.
2 Kings
HistoryBe not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.
Esther
HistoryThen sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;
Nehemiah
HistoryWhat thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesIn his days Pharaoh-nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsTherefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.