This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
Psalms
PoetryHe brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersUnless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe:
Numbers
LawAnd they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again. And they were exceeding sorry.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryAnd thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.
Exodus
LawAnd Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.
John
GospelsThat all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
1 Samuel
HistoryFor he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
Job
WisdomNow the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraO earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
Job
WisdomBecause ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHe answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
Mark
GospelsA reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBecause he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
Job
Wisdom / JobThou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.