Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThen said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielWhy gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAlso I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.
Ezra
HistoryFor the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
John
Gospels / JohnHe that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
Numbers
Law / MosesMy beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Solomon's Song
PoetryNow a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
Job
Wisdom / JobIt shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.
Leviticus
LawAnd your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
Luke
GospelsAll the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
Job
Wisdom / JobTake the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
Numbers
LawAnd they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
Acts
HistoryAnd Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them,
Luke
GospelsI am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
Psalms
PoetryAnd in the evening he cometh with the twelve.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm.
Luke
GospelsNeither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.