I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewNow the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Matthew
GospelsLo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
Psalms
PoetryWherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
Numbers
LawAnd he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?
Luke
GospelsThe sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWe will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.
Solomon's Song
PoetryThen the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.
1 Kings
HistoryEnvy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryYet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
Esther
HistoryBehold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsAnd thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.
Exodus
Law / MosesTherefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.
Leviticus
LawAnd he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
Genesis
Law / MosesHe found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThen said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
Revelation
ApocalypticWhen I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLet us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.