And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
Ezra
HistoryIs it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon:
Matthew
GospelsUnto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
Judges
HistoryAnd deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam, Go with the men: but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
Numbers
LawThen shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God, was allied unto Tobiah:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them.
2 Kings
HistoryFor he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThat this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThen hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahHe shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Jonathan said unto David, O LORD God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about to morrow any time, or the third day, and, behold, if there be good toward David, and I then send not unto thee, and shew it thee;
1 Samuel
History / SamuelStablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahSome fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul's hand.