Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis
LawA soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonGo, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
Acts
HistoryAnd Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThey took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,
Genesis
Law / MosesO give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
Genesis
LawThus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraLet his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
Numbers
LawAnd the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.
Numbers
Law / MosesThus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.
Amos
Minor ProphetsHe that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
2 Kings
HistoryNamely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
Judges
HistoryThe nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
Micah
Minor ProphetsThen came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
Haggai
Minor ProphetsHow hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.