Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?
1 Kings
HistoryArise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
1 Kings
HistoryFor they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Naarah bare him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.
1 Chronicles
HistoryHe moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
Job
WisdomThen Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.
Genesis
LawAnd the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?
John
GospelsAnd, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryFor when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNot as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
1 John
General EpistlesThe heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.
Proverbs
WisdomThe inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
Judges
HistorySurely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
Psalms
PoetryDeath and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.
Matthew
GospelsI went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
Ruth
History / SamuelTherefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.
2 Samuel
HistoryThen read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD'S house, in the ears of all the people.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTherefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap.
Joshua
HistoryTherefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat: