Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?
1 Samuel
HistorySo I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThe joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsSince ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulExcept it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day.
Acts
HistoryFor my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
Job
Wisdom / JobUntil I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.
2 Kings
HistoryFor they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Exodus
LawA fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahIf any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulInstead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.
Job
WisdomAnd thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
Leviticus
LawBlessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Beth-zur, and Shoco, and Adullam,
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
1 Kings
HistoryForasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
Exodus
LawSo they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.
Numbers
LawThou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
Psalms
PoetryA reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.