Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWho is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.
Numbers
Law / MosesGod forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the LORD our God that is before his tabernacle.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThe Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Job
WisdomAnd at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.
Revelation
ApocalypticDoth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahIn the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.
2 Chronicles
HistoryWhen Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
Matthew
GospelsI have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.
Leviticus
Law / MosesWherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesEvery valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
Luke
Gospels / LukeGod shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
Psalms
PoetryThen fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.