For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
John
GospelsBehold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
Psalms
PoetryThen said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.
Acts
History / LukeThose that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesThat confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHis scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
Job
Wisdom / JobIn his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.
Genesis
Law / MosesThat I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
Deuteronomy
LawThou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielO LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.
Matthew
GospelsWoe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Luke
GospelsBut he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBeside the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.
Judges
HistoryAnd Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?
Numbers
Law / MosesYour fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.
Ruth
HistoryMoreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahNow the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.