My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd of the sons of Azgad; Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him an hundred and ten males.
Ezra
History / EzraI said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWoe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsYet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumAnd it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.
Acts
HistoryFor this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
Luke
Gospels / LukeRun now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
Luke
GospelsAnd Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Genesis
LawBut Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
Acts
History / LukeThe thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.
Matthew
GospelsWill he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
Job
Wisdom / JobIf a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;
2 Chronicles
HistoryAgainst Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh-necho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.
Acts
HistoryAnd it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahMoreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielIf they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that were with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelLet not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: