He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
Psalms
PoetryBetter is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonSet me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonNow the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me.
Luke
GospelsJesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
John
GospelsThen said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahNow the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAnd when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
1 Peter
General EpistlesNow as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armour;
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBy the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThis is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAn hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,
Acts
HistoryAnd they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren:
Acts
History / LukeO daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhich remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
Genesis
LawAhiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,