But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Their horses, seven hundred thirty and six: their mules, two hundred forty and five:
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHis children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.
Psalms
PoetryFor thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsDeliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFrom men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
Psalms
PoetryAnd let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
Hebrews
General EpistlesIf thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.
Judges
HistoryThat the LORD may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielCut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:
Numbers
LawSo that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Beth-el,
Joshua
History / JoshuaAgain, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
Leviticus
Law / MosesCan that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Job
WisdomEgypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.
1 Kings
HistoryFor the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
2 Kings
HistoryThe world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.