And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
Mark
Gospels / MarkSo she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.
Ruth
HistoryAnd though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
Job
WisdomAnd moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
Revelation
ApocalypticHow he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?
Mark
GospelsThe fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.
Proverbs
WisdomTherefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
Psalms
PoetryThe wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
Proverbs
Wisdom(For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;
1 Kings
HistoryHe asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
Acts
HistoryBut foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulOn that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.
Esther
HistoryAm I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
Job
WisdomYet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.
Genesis
Law / MosesIn the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBy the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.