And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWhat knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
Job
WisdomLet us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
Psalms
PoetryAnd as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father.
Luke
GospelsThe heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
Job
WisdomAnd it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the evening and the morning were the third day.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.
Ruth
HistoryNow the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelSo that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;
Deuteronomy
LawThen Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.
Mark
GospelsThat the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
Leviticus
LawServe the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
Psalms
PoetryThey draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Micah
Minor ProphetsHow can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
John
Gospels / John(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)
1 John
General EpistlesAnd every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was,
1 Kings
History / JeremiahJames, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.