And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewShemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah,
Nehemiah
HistoryTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
Revelation
ApocalypticThen he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.
2 Kings
HistoryFor I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother's nakedness?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBe not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBehold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Psalms
PoetryThe idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
Acts
HistoryAnd he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjath-sepher.
Joshua
History / JoshuaSo the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsMoreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD'S house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsI have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.
Psalms
PoetryThat in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBe it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.