I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewI am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.
2 Chronicles
HistoryMy father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
Genesis
LawThe Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
1 Peter
General EpistlesAnd the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest:
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid.
Genesis
LawSet thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahYea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.
Acts
HistoryHis roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
Job
Wisdom / JobBut the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersCharity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Matthew
GospelsAnd they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
John
Gospels / JohnFor since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him;
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielTherefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd when we had sailed slowly many days, and scarce were come over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone;