We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
Genesis
Law / MosesAs thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsI will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
Psalms
PoetryTherefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsI am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewSo it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
Deuteronomy
LawWhere the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
Psalms
PoetryBut if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThat they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our's only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnHe that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThen Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.
Judges
HistoryFor if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
Genesis
Law / MosesWherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and they went into an house.
Mark
GospelsAnd thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.