But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
Genesis
LawAnd all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
Esther
HistoryFor a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesI am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAsahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,
2 Samuel
HistoryThe blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Job
Wisdom / JobThy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
Psalms
PoetrySanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
John
GospelsBehold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThis heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
Genesis
Law / MosesJoel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Haggeri,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when he had thus spoken, he went before, ascending up to Jerusalem.
Luke
GospelsIt shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
Job
WisdomMy lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHis flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
Job
WisdomTake thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages:
Joshua
History / JoshuaIf I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.