And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWhen saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
Exodus
LawWhen Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
John
Gospels / JohnEphraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsThen shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.
Exodus
LawAnd Shaharaim begat children in the country of Moab, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives.
1 Chronicles
HistoryO praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
Psalms
PoetryJoseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.
Mark
GospelsAnd when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?
Luke
GospelsBut David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAbove it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Beth-el,
Joshua
History / JoshuaYet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Job
Wisdom / JobBut he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
Matthew
GospelsWoe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThen the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielFor the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
Mark
Gospels / MarkSimeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.