Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsOnly the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.
Deuteronomy
LawThe suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Genesis
LawWe accept it always, and in all places, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness.
Acts
HistoryFor with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahYe have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhile he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue's house, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
Joshua
HistoryWe give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraGod standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
1 Peter
General EpistlesThe light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.
Deuteronomy
LawI will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
Leviticus
LawThou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
Matthew
GospelsO Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!