But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it:
Nehemiah
HistoryThen the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanNow the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesTo make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
Job
Wisdom / JobMeditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahAnd when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThe kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.
Judges
HistoryAnd he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.
Mark
Gospels / MarkArise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIn those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
1 John
General EpistlesWherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSpeak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses:
Joshua
History / JoshuaThy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsTherefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsJesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.