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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHe was with David at Pas-dammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a parcel of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
Psalms
PoetryIf I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
Job
WisdomAnd he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Esther
HistoryHer princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsAnd unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided: and his brother's name was Joktan.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanNow in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahMarvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
John
GospelsAnd he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.
Psalms
PoetryGo ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
Exodus
LawAnd Job answered and said,
Job
WisdomThus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
Numbers
LawAnd of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
1 Kings
HistorySaying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
Matthew
GospelsAnd it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.
1 Kings
HistoryIt is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahThat which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.