John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSurely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
Luke
GospelsFor an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
John
GospelsAnd Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren?
Mark
Gospels / MarkMany waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.
Exodus
LawBehold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahThen the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
Genesis
LawAnd David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterBut he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:
1 Kings
HistoryHath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?
John
Gospels / JohnThen Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
John
Gospels / JohnIf one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesNow the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,
1 Kings
HistoryO my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielBut the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.
Exodus
Law / MosesHe offered for his offering one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
Numbers
LawIt is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.