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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.
Psalms
PoetryThe LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
Deuteronomy
LawThou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
Exodus
LawAnd of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
2 John
General Epistles / JohnAnd he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd now I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing for the which he hath sent me unto you.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSo went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.
Genesis
Law / MosesHe is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
Job
Wisdom / JobFor he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThis is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.
Acts
History / LukePalal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king's high house, that was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahO turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
Psalms
PoetryI am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomJoshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
Joshua
History / JoshuaBut in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
Acts
History / LukeWherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.