O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
Job
WisdomKeep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe gold for things of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and for all manner of work to be made by the hands of artificers. And who then is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the LORD?
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?
Judges
History / SamuelWhen he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.
Acts
History / LukeAnd after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him:
Acts
HistoryAnd the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD, these cities and their suburbs.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment, than for you.
Luke
Gospels / LukeUntil the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.
Exodus
Law / MosesJoseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
Genesis
LawWhich now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesFor there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
Luke
Gospels / LukeShould not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?