Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsAnd every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Obed-edom with their brethren, threescore and eight; Obed-edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be porters:
1 Chronicles
HistoryI have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers
LawAnd having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesFire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
Psalms
PoetryThe Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThey have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Deuteronomy
LawThen she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say thee nay.
1 Kings
HistoryTherefore Absalom sent for Joab, to have sent him to the king; but he would not come to him: and when he sent again the second time, he would not come.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahTurn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTurn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;
Ruth
HistoryThat led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
Romans
Pauline EpistlesTo that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBehold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
Joel
Minor ProphetsHowl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahThey have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
Esther
History / MordecaiDefend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.