I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
Joshua
HistoryAnd Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;
Luke
Gospels / Luke(Now the half that pertained unto the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd she said, These six measures of barley gave he me; for he said to me, Go not empty unto thy mother in law.
Ruth
History / SamuelWhatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?
Ezra
HistoryAnd she named the child I-chabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out.
Luke
GospelsFor if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
James
General Epistles / JamesWherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsThe Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahIt shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
Obadiah
Minor Prophets / ObadiahOur cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God; and we know not with what we must serve the LORD, until we come thither.
Exodus
LawSo Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it;
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he said unto them, Let the LORD be so with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you.
Exodus
LawI charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.