Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
Deuteronomy
LawBut now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties.
1 Chronicles
HistoryWhen thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
Proverbs
WisdomWhich came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
Ezra
HistoryThen Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
Genesis
LawAnd the LORD spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out.
Numbers
LawBehold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
Matthew
GospelsAnd they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsThe one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of the LORD.
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
Revelation
ApocalypticJerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:
Psalms
PoetrySeest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
James
General Epistles / JamesBut I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.
Joshua
History / JoshuaBehold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
Job
WisdomAnd when they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBut when they saw him walking upon the sea, they supposed it had been a spirit, and cried out:
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you.