Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.
Judges
HistoryIn that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.
Matthew
GospelsAnd round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
Revelation
ApocalypticFor he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.
1 Kings
HistoryThen the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
Job
WisdomAnd some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
Mark
GospelsThere shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryMoreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNeither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons.
Judges
History / SamuelMine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
Psalms
PoetryLest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;