And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
2 Samuel
HistoryHow oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
Job
WisdomFor all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanTherefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.
2 Samuel
HistoryHe shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.
Leviticus
LawThe lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
Genesis
Law / MosesSo then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesBy this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me a sign that thou talkest with me.
Judges
History / SamuelWhatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsSo after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?
John
Gospels / JohnAfterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHe croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid: