Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanDoth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Job
WisdomHow doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
Lamentations
Major ProphetsNow, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThey have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
Genesis
Law / MosesOur fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahI will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahA word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Genesis
LawAnd the east border was the salt sea, even unto the end of Jordan. And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan:
Joshua
History / JoshuaSo shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
Genesis
Law / MosesJesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWhen Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIf I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
Psalms
PoetryThen shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAs he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.
Proverbs
WisdomIn that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
Job
WisdomAccording to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnath-serah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAs the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.