So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
Genesis
LawTherefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAs long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
John
GospelsAnd Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
1 Chronicles
History / EzraYe shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.
Numbers
LawI saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThe thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them an hundred chariots.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
Genesis
LawAs for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelIf thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsZalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanTo teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.
Leviticus
LawBehind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesTo whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
Job
Wisdom / JobI will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee.