While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Beth-lehem.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanYet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIf fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah.
Judges
HistoryThen said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will even do it for thee.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelWho can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? who can shew forth all his praise?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersDo ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThey were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
Job
Wisdom / JobTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Exodus
Law / MosesThere was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all other they took in battle.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThe spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulOut of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielFor great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.