For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
Psalms
PoetryThe length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size.
Exodus
Law / MosesIn that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / Isaiah(There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.)
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
Genesis
Law / MosesHe hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
Ezra
HistoryThen said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?
Luke
Gospels / LukeVerily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
John
GospelsThese are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Luke
GospelsTo what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSo then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulMen, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you.
Acts
History / LukePersecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length shall be over against one of the portions, from the west border unto the east border.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHave they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
Judges
History / SamuelThe rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Proverbs
WisdomThen the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God.
Acts
HistoryI will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people.