Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonGive not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
Proverbs
WisdomThou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.
Genesis
Law / MosesLet no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
James
General Epistles / JamesIf any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulI made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
Job
Wisdom / JobThe words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, which had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd he asked the scribes, What question ye with them?
Mark
GospelsAnd when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul;
1 Samuel
HistoryNow set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahTake thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBehold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
Psalms
PoetryBut when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
Mark
GospelsAnd Me-jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border before Japho.
Joshua
HistoryCharge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;