But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.
Exodus
LawThere the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the LORD.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
Genesis
LawThe children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and four.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahNeither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTherefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
Revelation
ApocalypticThe nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.
John
GospelsNow in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)
Esther
History / MordecaiGo up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.
Genesis
LawAnd he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
Luke
GospelsThou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMeshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
Matthew
GospelsThe which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?
Judges
History / SamuelTherefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law: