I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosWhen my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThey have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
Proverbs
WisdomThus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThat frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahMen do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are wise of heart.
Job
WisdomNow it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king's office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and the high priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
2 Chronicles
HistoryMine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
Genesis
Law / MosesHe is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
Matthew
GospelsBut whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,
Matthew
GospelsMoreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsIf we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnTherefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:
Judges
History / SamuelAnd when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSon of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBecause that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.