I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
Job
WisdomFor verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
Job
WisdomThat thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.
Psalms
PoetryThe voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsOf the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and the LORD be with thee.
1 Chronicles
HistoryIn the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
John
GospelsAnd unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.
Genesis
LawThe fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahWhat knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
Job
WisdomAnd God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Genesis
LawHow shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?
Judges
History / SamuelFor Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.
Acts
History / LukeI stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.
Ruth
History / SamuelWherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take victuals with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them, We are your servants: therefore now make ye a league with us.