For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
Genesis
Law / MosesAs a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
Proverbs
WisdomFor Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHow long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
Psalms
PoetryThe fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
Numbers
LawNeither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary, and refreshed themselves there.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSo the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Beth-aven.
1 Samuel
HistoryThey are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Psalms
PoetryBut I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsA froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Proverbs
WisdomYea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomMy meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsTherefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaBehold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father David, saying,
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.
Exodus
LawThis charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.