Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath kindled.
Leviticus
LawMoreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnI am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.
1 Samuel
HistoryIf thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.
Leviticus
Law / MosesWhich were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
Job
WisdomFor the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAll these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones:
1 Kings
HistoryNow the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.
Mark
GospelsAnd he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?
1 Samuel
HistorySaying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewSo Hazael king of Syria died; and Ben-hadad his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahMy lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsMy soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches: