I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
Ezra
HistoryAnd the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I.
Ruth
HistoryAnd when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,
Acts
History / LukeAnd they sat down, and did eat and drink both of them together: for the damsel's father had said unto the man, Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart be merry.
Judges
HistoryCursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
2 Kings
HistoryWhich Shelomith and his brethren were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the chief fathers, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had dedicated.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.
Genesis
LawI will therefore chastise him, and release him.
Luke
GospelsWe are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus
LawAnd, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in flotes by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistoryOf the children of Judah, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers
Law / MosesHe took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:
Hosea
Minor ProphetsThe Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
Acts
HistoryRemember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;
Psalms
PoetryAnd Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz,
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?
John
GospelsNow therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.