For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
Psalms
PoetryBenjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
Genesis
LawAnd David perceived that the LORD had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake.
2 Samuel
HistoryBut put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Job
WisdomAnd eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates: because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.
Judges
HistoryIn the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
2 Kings
HistoryThou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSo I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsOh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Job
WisdomKnowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterHast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
Job
WisdomTherefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesWherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
Luke
GospelsThe burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsOtherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.
1 Kings
HistoryThe LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.
John
GospelsAnd the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish.
1 Samuel
HistoryTo make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.
Leviticus
LawWherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.