For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThen she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahRemember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLet the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Isaac came from the way of the well Lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the south country.
Genesis
Law / MosesSpeak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean.
Leviticus
LawThe rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe children of Dishan are these; Uz, and Aran.
Genesis
LawThey have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
Deuteronomy
LawTherefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Matthew
GospelsShew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.
Psalms
PoetryOur God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Psalms
PoetryThen Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the people came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent.
2 Samuel
HistoryThe punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.
Genesis
Law / MosesMany bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
Psalms
PoetryAnd after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the LORD God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.