Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Ezra
History / EzraThen Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielBe not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
Proverbs
WisdomHaving confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.
Philemon
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen sought they for Jesus, and spake among themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the feast?
John
GospelsAnd Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
Exodus
LawAs the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsI will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
Psalms
PoetryBut ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
John
Gospels / JohnIn Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAs the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
John
GospelsThat we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosWhy is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.
Mark
GospelsI will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us?
Genesis
LawAnd the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsWhich when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.
Acts
History / LukeAnd David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanI will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
Psalms
PoetryOf the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAs with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWe will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be our's.