For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, but that he will shew it me: and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThen said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
Leviticus
LawThey said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.
Ruth
History / SamuelNow it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he left all, rose up, and followed him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeI therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third day at even.
1 Samuel
HistorySee, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHe that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
Proverbs
WisdomTherefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.
2 Kings
HistoryFor to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
Acts
HistoryHis ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
Psalms
PoetryBlessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
Luke
GospelsIt is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.