For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
Solomon's Song
PoetryFor the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsLet mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.
Exodus
LawTo hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
Psalms
PoetryAnd when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThe captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so.
1 Kings
HistoryHe will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulOur holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahOh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.
1 Kings
HistoryYou only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThe elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesThe letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
Genesis
LawBut have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThen let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.
Ezra
HistoryAlso thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.