For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThis is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesHear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAt destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
Job
WisdomAnd in the evening he cometh with the twelve.
Mark
GospelsThe LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsThen went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.
Joshua
History / JoshuaOn that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.
Esther
History / MordecaiWherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
Exodus
LawNow the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraSo all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThough thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsGod shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
Genesis
LawAnd he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Genesis
LawSo David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.
1 Samuel
HistoryPreach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielMy flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.