He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions.
Mark
Gospels / MarkYe which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosSo now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.
Exodus
LawTheir seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
Job
WisdomThe eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
Job
Wisdom / JobThere are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.
Psalms
PoetryOf Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family of the Arelites.
Numbers
Law / MosesThen fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.
Judges
History / SamuelMicah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahGo ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahHow shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.
Psalms
PoetryKeeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Exodus
LawHave mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the other half tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Beesh-terah with her suburbs; two cities.
Joshua
HistoryNow Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.
2 Samuel
HistoryNo man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,