Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonVerily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
John
GospelsWe are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
1 John
General EpistlesIt came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThen said the high priest, Are these things so?
Acts
HistoryAnd he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beer-sheba.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?
Mark
GospelsThe overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph, the singers were over the business of the house of God.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahI prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is but a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
Leviticus
LawAnd ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesIt is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonNeither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
Genesis
Law / MosesBel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
Psalms
PoetryMoreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanNor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
Hebrews
General EpistlesThe sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.