My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
Genesis
LawThen the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.
John
GospelsAnd the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThen ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.
Joshua
History / JoshuaBackbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Romans
Pauline EpistlesFor yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Genesis
LawTill we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.
Luke
GospelsFor they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep:
Numbers
LawAnd the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:
Judges
History / SamuelI neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAs thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
Revelation
ApocalypticWhich my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.
Psalms
PoetryThen the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean.
Leviticus
LawFor the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?