If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Beth-lehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAlso of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
Acts
HistoryYet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesI have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.
Psalms
PoetryEnflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHis legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me.
Mark
GospelsI beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe twentieth to Eliathah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
John
Gospels / JohnFrom men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
Psalms
PoetryHe measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThat ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesPilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
John
GospelsAnd the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of their's, and speak thou good.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
Numbers
LawAnd I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahWhere are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThe eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.
Proverbs
WisdomA fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIf he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.