And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin;
Leviticus
Law / MosesThen king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahSeest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonLord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows which I shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelNeither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesFor I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate!
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumBut I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?
2 Samuel
HistoryAll these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
1 Chronicles
HistoryApply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
Proverbs
WisdomThe noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsAnd there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen came in all the king's wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielI came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
John
Gospels / JohnFor he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
Job
Wisdom / JobUntil the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.
Solomon's Song
PoetryThe thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.