And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
Genesis
Law / MosesWhich in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
1 Peter
General EpistlesThe hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryI will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.
Psalms
PoetryWithhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
Numbers
LawAnd he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
Exodus
LawAs for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto the LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savour.
Leviticus
Law / MosesSanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonIn those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahI will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBlessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Psalms
PoetryAnd all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulIn weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe fifteenth to Jeremoth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.
Luke
Gospels / LukeO daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.