This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
Acts
HistoryAnd he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
Matthew
GospelsThou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:
Exodus
Law / MosesAttend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNotwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesNow be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeI cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
Job
WisdomAnd he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBut they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.
Luke
GospelsBecause ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
Genesis
LawPraise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:
Psalms
PoetryFor he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
2 John
General EpistlesBy terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
Psalms
PoetryAnd the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
Joshua
HistoryIf I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
Job
WisdomAnd the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the LORD hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd he went from year to year in circuit to Beth-el, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
Job
WisdomWhose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.