And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
Luke
GospelsAnd the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine house: for they be come to search out all the country.
Joshua
History / JoshuaI have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Psalms
PoetryBlessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem:
Ezra
HistoryAnd they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
2 Samuel
HistoryDamascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIs not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
Deuteronomy
LawBut if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.
Leviticus
LawAnd Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom the LORD, and this people, and all the men of Israel, choose, his will I be, and with him will I abide.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
Psalms
PoetryThe nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not.
Acts
HistoryBut in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;
Genesis
LawFor Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.
Luke
Gospels / LukeHe watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.
Psalms
PoetryAnd what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.
Exodus
LawAnd there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFor the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,
Acts
History / LukeSo the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.