And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThen they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.
Mark
GospelsBut when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewNow there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomBeloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
3 John
General EpistlesBut the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAll thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielSo Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
Joshua
HistoryBecause thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Revelation
ApocalypticReuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
Genesis
LawAnd of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
Mark
GospelsThe hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan.
Psalms
PoetryTwo women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Luke
Gospels / LukeLet your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThen he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd they cried out again, Crucify him.
Mark
GospelsTherefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!