They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
Genesis
LawThe vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsArise therefore, and get thee down, and go with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them.
Acts
HistoryThus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
Job
Wisdom / JobMoreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
Psalms
PoetryTherefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFor, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiI am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThen came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.
John
GospelsLet us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Genesis
LawFor he loveth our nation, and he hath built us a synagogue.
Luke
Gospels / LukeOnly the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
Genesis
Law / MosesWherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.