Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
Psalms
PoetryWisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
Proverbs
WisdomAnd David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
Psalms
PoetryA gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
1 Kings
HistoryFor she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWhen thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesEven so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.
Matthew
GospelsThen led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
John
GospelsThat all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Genesis
Law / MosesEven as I sware unto thee by the LORD God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahI say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.
Mark
Gospels / MarkRemember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
Deuteronomy
LawOnyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.
Exodus
LawTherefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahRestore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.
Nehemiah
HistoryI watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHis eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
Exodus
LawAnd the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them: for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.