And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThey are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTheir eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWho provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
Job
WisdomAnd I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.
Ezra
HistoryAnd one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.
Genesis
LawTherefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahThe king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThere was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsTherefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the ark of God remained with the family of Obed-edom in his house three months. And the LORD blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that he had.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWho can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? who can shew forth all his praise?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
2 Samuel
HistoryWe are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWalk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesWe are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.