As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAs righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonSeeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahThe LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanCrying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.
Acts
HistoryOne young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
Numbers
Law / MosesCan a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsIf the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
Psalms
PoetryAnd let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesBut the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the princes;
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahIn the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.
Judges
HistoryVerily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
Luke
Gospels / LukeHim God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly;
Acts
History / LukeMy lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
Genesis
LawFor he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.