When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.
2 Samuel
HistoryOh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd it shall come to pass, that the man's rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you.
Numbers
LawI will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBehold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNow set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.
Exodus
LawThis they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
John
GospelsI am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Psalms
PoetryAnd their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph,
Joshua
HistoryAlso the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.
Genesis
LawBut ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAs long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
Leviticus
LawThey are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
Leviticus
LawNot forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAs one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumWine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.