I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the ark of the LORD continued in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months: and the LORD blessed Obed-edom, and all his household.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanI would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonDoth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
Job
WisdomJustice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
Psalms
PoetryA seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
Psalms
PoetryMy soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersPreaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
LawThou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMoreover Job continued his parable, and said,
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
Judges
HistoryAnd she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose up before one could know another. And he said, Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor.
Ruth
History / SamuelAfter a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.
Matthew
GospelsYea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course, and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possession of the king, and of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men, unto Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles
HistoryI will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsFor though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesTo him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.