For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?
Numbers
LawAnd they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.
Luke
GospelsDestruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
Job
Wisdom / JobTo whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBecause of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went into Babylon, saith the LORD: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
2 Samuel
HistoryBut if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHe answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Mark
GospelsWhen a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:
Leviticus
LawFor the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
Job
WisdomAnd a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.
Judges
HistoryThen all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.
Ezra
History / EzraSpeak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering;
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBehold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsGo and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.