If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewIt is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonO spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Psalms
PoetryThou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielCurse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.
Judges
HistoryPhilip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;
Matthew
GospelsHold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
Job
WisdomAnd Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again through the people from Beer-sheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the LORD God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd if this come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and secure you.
Matthew
GospelsBefore the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.
1 Samuel
HistoryBut the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her.
Luke
GospelsWhen Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahReturn, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
Esther
HistoryAnd this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
John
GospelsAnd unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
Numbers
LawThey have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: