And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:
Joshua
HistoryAnd he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
Acts
HistoryFor the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsIn those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute unto their brethren.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, thy servant hath sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and his servants go with thy servant.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBlessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD.
1 Chronicles
HistoryMy father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
Genesis
Law / MosesCome against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTrust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Proverbs
WisdomThus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.
Psalms
PoetryFor the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for the LORD hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
Luke
Gospels / LukeO LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
Job
WisdomTherefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHe brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
Psalms
PoetryAn unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.