O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWoe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.
Micah
Minor ProphetsShall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
Job
WisdomAnd under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.
1 Kings
HistoryWhich holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.
Psalms
PoetryThis day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAlso day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
John
Gospels / JohnI know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBecause thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
Job
WisdomFor godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulDoth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
2 Chronicles
History / EzraJerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.
Numbers
Law / MosesAgain, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD for ever.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahSo that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesThen said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd they departed from Tahath, and pitched at Tarah.
Numbers
LawYe have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
Malachi
Minor ProphetsAnd Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,
Ruth
History / SamuelAnd it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.