The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
Job
WisdomBut I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
Genesis
LawAnd there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
Exodus
LawNeither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesNow he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesWhom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
Philemon
Pauline EpistlesAnd king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThis is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
Exodus
Law / MosesThis people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewMost men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
Proverbs
WisdomThe son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchiah,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.
Esther
History / Mordecai(But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:)
1 Kings
HistoryUnto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
Genesis
Law / MosesMine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnBut before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
Genesis
LawYe shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.