Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBehold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsAnd it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us to take that we have? is it not so?
Judges
HistoryAnd the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary, and refreshed themselves there.
2 Samuel
HistoryWhose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsThe Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.
2 Chronicles
HistoryNot as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnBut if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
Numbers
Law / MosesLet my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.
Psalms
PoetryThe LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
Proverbs
WisdomThe days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsBut they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewSurely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomLet us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
Solomon's Song
PoetryOf the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers
Law / MosesBehold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.
Joshua
HistoryAnd they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsLikewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
James
General EpistlesBut whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
John
Gospels / JohnOur God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.