And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.
Psalms
PoetryWe have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
Psalms
PoetryNow it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the LORD.
Exodus
LawThen said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?
Luke
GospelsAwake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahTo the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.
John
GospelsSaying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
Luke
GospelsA wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonIn all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?
2 Samuel
HistoryI tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
Luke
GospelsI will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
Psalms
PoetryThe fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
Proverbs
WisdomAgain in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsEven men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahTherefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraHe that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSo Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.
2 Kings
HistoryBecause for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
Numbers
LawHe turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.