And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house:
Ezra
HistoryOne young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
Numbers
LawYet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahGreat in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhen ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsYea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulZadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they tarried there.
2 Samuel
HistoryThe king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThey that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.
Psalms
PoetryFor Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.
Luke
GospelsTo whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesI will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was with him.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, were recorded chief of the fathers: also the priests, to the reign of Darius the Persian.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistoryWho came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this;
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahFor whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.