And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.
Mark
Gospels / MarkYea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBe not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsMoreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
Luke
GospelsBehold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAlso I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.
Ezra
History / EzraThen Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us see one another in the face.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBecause that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.
John
GospelsAnd now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.
1 Samuel
HistorySo Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersA word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd spake unto him, saying, Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority?
Luke
GospelsBecause thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSo she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.
1 Kings
HistoryTherefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?
John
Gospels / JohnIf I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not.
John
Gospels / JohnSo the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.