It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters.
Psalms
PoetryAnd in the evening he cometh with the twelve.
Mark
GospelsWhen Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the sons of Nadab; Seled, and Appaim: but Seled died without children.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraSo the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
Joshua
History / JoshuaBut love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Luke
GospelsWhoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonTurn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.
Psalms
PoetryMy times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
Psalms
PoetryFor all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.
2 Samuel
HistoryNeither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own house.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father's house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?
Judges
HistoryBe in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahIn those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.
Nehemiah
HistoryIf I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
Job
Wisdom / JobThat which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
1 John
General EpistlesMary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her.
John
Gospels / JohnThus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahYea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahThere is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.