The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
Exodus
LawLet them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
PoetryWhich thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.
Acts
HistoryAnd, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
Numbers
Law / MosesThou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
Esther
History / MordecaiA lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
Proverbs
WisdomPut ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
Joel
Minor ProphetsDeal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.
Psalms
PoetryZebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
Judges
History / SamuelHe smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel?
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me to be there: and now, if I have found favour in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he cometh not unto the king's table.
1 Samuel
HistoryYea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
Job
Wisdom / JobI understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
Psalms
PoetryThen I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanDo we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulSpeak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
Numbers
Law / MosesI fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
Luke
GospelsAnd having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulNo meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.