I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.
1 Samuel
HistoryI charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.
Joshua
History / JoshuaTo give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.
Ezra
History / EzraIf thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
Job
WisdomBut thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBe not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomOnly be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
Acts
HistoryBut the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
Luke
GospelsAnd if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.
Leviticus
Law / MosesIncline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAfter him repaired their brethren, Bavai the son of Henadad, the ruler of the half part of Keilah.
Nehemiah
HistoryWhen the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
Job
WisdomTherefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
Genesis
Law / MosesHelp, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:
1 Kings
HistoryFor the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
Deuteronomy
LawOnly unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us.