Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahIn Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Matthew
GospelsTo be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
Luke
GospelsWho, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
Acts
History / LukeFor we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down.
Ruth
History / SamuelWhen men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
Job
WisdomAnd Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: these were the sons of Azel.
1 Chronicles
HistoryOur feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.
Psalms
PoetryThey come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd 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.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
Hebrews
General EpistlesFor a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by Beth-rehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
Amos
Minor ProphetsHe blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersShe seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.