Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.
Acts
HistoryThou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd a several tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen lambs:
Numbers
Law / MosesHe lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahHe shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
Deuteronomy
LawAnd she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
Judges
HistoryTherefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:
Numbers
LawAnd he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.
1 Kings
HistoryTruly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
Genesis
LawAnd spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
Exodus
Law / MosesCounsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Proverbs
WisdomWhen they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.