And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBehold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
Job
WisdomThen will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.
2 Chronicles
HistoryTo offer burnt offerings unto the LORD upon the altar of the burnt offering continually morning and evening, and to do according to all that is written in the law of the LORD, which he commanded Israel;
1 Chronicles
HistoryIf he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
Exodus
Law / MosesPaul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.
Psalms
PoetryAnd his brethren by Eliezer; Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomith his son.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.
1 Samuel
HistoryWherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.
Acts
HistoryAnd Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go.
Exodus
Law / MosesIf thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
Exodus
LawFor how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
Genesis
LawAnd the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.
Judges
HistoryThou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
Exodus
LawCommand Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it.
Leviticus
LawAnd David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanShew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.
Psalms
PoetryNow when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.
Ezra
History / EzraNow when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve.
Matthew
GospelsWherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.