Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?
Judges
History / SamuelAnd with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should make a sound, and with musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were porters.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraA time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomSlothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsFor the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.
Acts
HistoryAfter this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John
GospelsYea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:
Job
WisdomAnd this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsSing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsO vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:
1 Kings
HistoryBut I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesBy the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThis second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
2 Peter
General EpistlesAnd Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.
Genesis
LawAnd the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
Judges
HistoryAnd in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaWherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.
2 Chronicles
HistoryTherefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.