Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
Matthew
GospelsFine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
2 Peter
General EpistlesAnd the king's servants said unto the king, Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHer Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahNotwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
Numbers
LawThou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work made he the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, were of the same:
Exodus
LawHe hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsI will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
Job
Wisdom / JobEvery sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
Leviticus
LawThen the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Job answered and said,
Job
Wisdom / JobI the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;
Leviticus
LawWherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahHe raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelI am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
Acts
HistoryHe that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonTurn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.