And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token:
Joshua
History / JoshuaSo every man of Israel went up from after David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.
Judges
HistoryAnd they departed from Iim, and pitched in Dibon-gad.
Numbers
LawFor I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.
Genesis
LawThey have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielWhy abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
Judges
HistoryAnd the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.
Exodus
Law / MosesThough thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsThey shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Abraham said, I will swear.
Genesis
LawThrough the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
Luke
GospelsAnd Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
Esther
HistoryAnd when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden.
Luke
Gospels / LukeTherefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
Acts
HistoryAnd they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in a place where two ways met; and they loose him.