But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
Psalms
PoetryA foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
Proverbs
WisdomTheir enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAfter that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:
Leviticus
Law / MosesHerein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
John
GospelsUnstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
Genesis
LawThere came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.
Matthew
GospelsForty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
Titus
Pauline EpistlesThrough mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesTherefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHow was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulWilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielYea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsWherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
Exodus
LawGebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
Psalms
PoetryThen king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.
Daniel
Major ProphetsThe young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
Job
WisdomTherefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.