And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
Job
Wisdom / JobIf I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
Job
WisdomWhat is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Job
Wisdom / JobOf Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.
Numbers
Law / MosesMy mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.
Psalms
PoetryBut I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
Revelation
ApocalypticThe children of Nebo, fifty and two.
Ezra
History / EzraLet them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
Psalms
PoetryAnd from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
Revelation
ApocalypticThe LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesTheir horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;
Ezra
HistoryThou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
Exodus
LawBut with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesBut overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHappy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.
1 Kings
HistoryThen said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew
GospelsAnd I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAfter whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
1 Samuel
HistoryWherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThat thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.