Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
1 Kings
HistoryThe Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
John
GospelsBut ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee.
Deuteronomy
LawAt the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.
Daniel
Major ProphetsFor I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAll 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
Law / MosesSo we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.
Ezra
HistoryFor a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonWe have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:
1 Kings
HistoryThen said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zareth-shahar in the mount of the valley,
Joshua
HistoryThen come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,
Mark
GospelsBut David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth-lehem.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelWithdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
Job
WisdomAnd Eshton begat Beth-rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Rechah.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelIf I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
Job
Wisdom / JobTherefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsKnow therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.