My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
Job
WisdomDo ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
Deuteronomy
LawAnd she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.
1 Kings
HistoryThe righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
Job
WisdomAnd Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
Exodus
LawAnd Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles
HistoryI have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
John
Gospels / JohnThe second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnO come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd 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
History / SamuelThe king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
Joshua
History / JoshuaWhose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.
1 Chronicles
HistoryVanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomSo the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.
2 Kings
HistoryWherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.
Judges
History / SamuelIn the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsRemove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said unto him, So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBut of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of his chariots and horsemen.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBut take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Joshua
HistoryFor the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.