But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Then said they, It is his angel.
Acts
History / LukeThen I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
Nehemiah
HistorySo Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
Judges
HistoryIn these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsWherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
Exodus
LawAnd had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
Psalms
PoetryThey are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaGo ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraA sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.
Nehemiah
HistoryHow beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAll these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.