The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
Numbers
LawReturn, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
Psalms
PoetryAnd Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
Exodus
Law / MosesSo the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
Judges
HistoryA fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
Proverbs
WisdomGive instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewDestruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
2 Kings
HistoryFor shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.
Luke
Gospels / LukeIf I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
Job
Wisdom / JobI went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsI was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsMark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.
Luke
Gospels / LukeGive the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
Deuteronomy
LawThen I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsEven as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
Romans
Pauline EpistlesBut he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
Job
WisdomWe grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.