And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Abstain from all appearance of evil.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWhen I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Psalms
PoetryRemember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
Deuteronomy
LawA little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThis our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy:
Joshua
HistoryIt is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God, which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king's treasure house.
Ezra
History / EzraTo bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.
Esther
HistoryThen said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they took the things which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people that were at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.
Judges
History / SamuelIf I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
Psalms
PoetryThe LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
Leviticus
LawThen was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry?
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielLo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Job
WisdomAnd the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baal-hermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD: