I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
Psalms
PoetryThus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.
Deuteronomy
LawWhen I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
Job
Wisdom / JobWe lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesWherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
Numbers
Law / MosesSend therefore to Joppa, and call hither Simon, whose surname is Peter; he is lodged in the house of one Simon a tanner by the sea side: who, when he cometh, shall speak unto thee.
Acts
HistoryOtherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against me.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesThe women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.
Exodus
LawAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.
Exodus
LawAnd when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD, and his people Israel.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.
John
GospelsAnd Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
Deuteronomy
LawThen said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.