And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahMany will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.
Proverbs
WisdomThen will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.
Acts
HistorySurely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
Job
WisdomThey reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
Matthew
GospelsThou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
Leviticus
LawThen hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,
Mark
Gospels / MarkLet them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.
Psalms
PoetryThus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosBecause that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThis is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:
Numbers
LawAnd if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
Exodus
Law / MosesBut when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.
Judges
HistoryAnd shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
Luke
GospelsMy tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI 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.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonThou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.
1 Samuel
HistoryA gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.