But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
Job
Wisdom / JobLet the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsIf a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:
Exodus
Law / MosesIf he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
Exodus
LawAnd he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
Genesis
LawAnd the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife.
2 Kings
HistoryThis people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahTherefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAt that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThat we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahRender therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesBut every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahTo morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;
Leviticus
Law / MosesYe shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
Leviticus
LawAnd we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.
Ezra
History / EzraFor I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean.