As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulYe have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsI tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWhy hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWhen your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonManasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraYet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersPrinces shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God.
2 Samuel
HistoryThese are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahI know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:
2 Kings
HistoryFor every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielI suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesHe hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.