Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
Genesis
LawAnd I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.
Acts
History / LukeHe shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHave ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
Amos
Minor ProphetsWhere are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat.
Acts
HistoryAnd he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened.
Mark
Gospels / MarkWhere there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonSo that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house.
Luke
GospelsTo understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
Proverbs
WisdomThou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
Job
WisdomA prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.
Proverbs
WisdomThe thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Proverbs
WisdomFrom men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
Psalms
PoetryWhat is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job
WisdomIn my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
Genesis
Law / MosesThou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd when Baal-hanan was dead, Hadad reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pai; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.