Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
Psalms
PoetryFor it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownWherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsWherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterBut thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
Psalms
PoetryHide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.
Job
WisdomFor we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
Psalms
PoetryThen will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
Matthew
GospelsThen said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahBehold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Exodus
LawAnd from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHe made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
Deuteronomy
LawHow doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
Lamentations
Major ProphetsI say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.
Acts
HistoryFor the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
Psalms
PoetryBut they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWhich yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonIf a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: