A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning.
2 Kings
HistoryLet God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.
Psalms
PoetryYet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts:
Haggai
Minor ProphetsAnd why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThese are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his city;
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not your's.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets(As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahMake thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps.
Numbers
LawFor unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFrom the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
Joshua
HistoryBut the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.
Acts
HistoryWhen Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesIt is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBut we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.