Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.
Acts
HistoryAnd it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThey that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsBut thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
Psalms
PoetryShall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
Psalms
PoetryAfter whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
1 Samuel
HistorySo I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonEbed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the city of David with gladness.
2 Samuel
HistoryMen do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonTherefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHe maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThere is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAt that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHave any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?
John
Gospels / JohnFor we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
Philemon
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsThis thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd the third took her; and in like manner the seven also: and they left no children, and died.
Luke
GospelsOne sea, and twelve oxen under it.