And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,
Psalms
PoetryMy vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonThen said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
John
GospelsThus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
Numbers
LawThat the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Genesis
Law / MosesNow when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.
Ezra
HistoryWithhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
Proverbs
WisdomWho through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Azariah begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraO God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesNow is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
John
GospelsAnd Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
2 Samuel
HistoryThat all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
1 Samuel
HistoryThe fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonTherefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahHe scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.
Job
Wisdom / JobThou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide for ever.