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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I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersA wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThey are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:
Exodus
LawAnd thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:
Exodus
LawPilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHe hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
Job
WisdomAnd the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSimeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
Genesis
Law / MosesYea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIf ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
Genesis
Law / MosesAll the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
1 Kings
HistoryTheir horses, seven hundred thirty and six: their mules, two hundred forty and five:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahMoreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:
Deuteronomy
LawBlessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewLet us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsKings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.
Judges
History / SamuelOne thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
Psalms
PoetryThere is a league between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.