They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
Deuteronomy
LawReturn to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath done unto thee. And he went his way, and published throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Mark
GospelsThe entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
Psalms
PoetryBut I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesFor yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWhen he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
Judges
History / SamuelPrepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIf any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesFor a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThough he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
Job
WisdomAnd their brethren, which were in their villages, were to come after seven days from time to time with them.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he went up from thence unto Beth-el: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd all the people departed every man to his house: and David returned to bless his house.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraNow therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.
Leviticus
LawBut the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahI have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTherefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite,
Mark
Gospels / MarkTheir priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.