One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
Proverbs
WisdomFor it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
Matthew
GospelsAnd he had much business in the cities of Judah: and the men of war, mighty men of valour, were in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBe 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 / MicahAnd Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.
Genesis
LawThy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAnd when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.
Judges
HistoryThe children of Binnui, six hundred forty and eight.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahOh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
Psalms
PoetryAnd Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanO Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsHe will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.
Numbers
Law / MosesTherefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
Esther
History / MordecaiI will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
Acts
History / LukeThat they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD for Israel; and the LORD heard him.