And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielSay unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielArt thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
Job
Wisdom / JobBut the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;
Genesis
LawTheir young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
Job
WisdomAnd my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:
Genesis
Law / MosesI have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWho led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
Deuteronomy
LawThe righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
Proverbs
WisdomTherefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.
Leviticus
Law / MosesHe that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonOr if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white;
Leviticus
LawIn the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
2 Kings
History / JeremiahI sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you, that offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice,
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
Judges
HistoryAnd the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD.
1 Kings
HistoryFor neither did his brethren believe in him.
John
GospelsBut Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.