Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
Solomon's Song
PoetryNow therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.
Joshua
History / JoshuaIs not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
1 Samuel
HistoryThere is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they said, What need we any further witness? for we ourselves have heard of his own mouth.
Luke
GospelsCanst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
Job
WisdomAnd they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.
Numbers
Law / MosesO give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
PoetryIn the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
Mark
Gospels / MarkYe shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBlessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
John
GospelsHear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
Job
Wisdom / JobTherefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.
1 Samuel
HistoryThen said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.
Proverbs
WisdomBeriah also, and Shema, who were heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who drove away the inhabitants of Gath:
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish.
1 Samuel
HistorySo they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.