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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
2 Kings
HistoryFor I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Acts
History / LukeI waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
Psalms
PoetryAnd his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
Genesis
LawWash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: but make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.
Ruth
History / SamuelAnd Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraLord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
Psalms
PoetryYet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
Job
WisdomBut it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
Matthew
GospelsAnd every raven after his kind,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
1 Peter
General EpistlesAnd I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
Revelation
ApocalypticMany are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
Psalms
PoetryBlessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewUnto the sons of Gershom were given out of the family of the half tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, and Ashtaroth with her suburbs:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraIn all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,
Deuteronomy
LawWhen the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.