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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In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.
Luke
Gospels / LukeLet his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Psalms
PoetryAnd what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy servant.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSix days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:
Deuteronomy
LawA talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraLo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
Psalms
PoetryShall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukThen brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
Mark
Gospels / MarkBlow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
Joel
Minor ProphetsYe shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;
Numbers
Law / MosesMen and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
Acts
History / LukeFor I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Job
WisdomCircumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
Deuteronomy
LawA time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAs free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
1 Peter
General EpistlesLet us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.