Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek?
Acts
History / LukeAnd Hananiah, and Elam, and Antothijah,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.
Matthew
GospelsWhat could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:
1 Samuel
HistoryIf thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;
2 Chronicles
HistoryHe shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
Joshua
History / JoshuaAs when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves unto Solomon the king.
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
Esther
HistoryThine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Leviticus
LawAnd, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,
Deuteronomy
LawWe know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is.
John
Gospels / JohnSo that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
Hebrews
General EpistlesIn measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.