I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsTherefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew certainly that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, then would not I tell it thee?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.
Luke
GospelsAnd Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.
1 Samuel
HistoryThey that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?
Judges
HistoryAll his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomTherefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD'S house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
Psalms
PoetryZedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahI have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
Exodus
LawShall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.
Acts
HistoryO Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesNow the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBehold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.