And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy
LawIn the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFoolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Proverbs
WisdomFor there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd they beckoned unto their partners, which were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they began to sink.
Luke
GospelsBecause he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.
Genesis
Law / MosesA merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Proverbs
WisdomHow shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
Psalms
PoetryBut now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
Romans
Pauline EpistlesWhich make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
Job
Wisdom / JobThat the LORD may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor John was not yet cast into prison.
John
GospelsNow therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.
Genesis
LawHe shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.
Judges
HistoryAnd I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
Deuteronomy
LawWilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.
Esther
History / MordecaiWhen I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,