We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
Proverbs
WisdomYea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
Job
Wisdom / JobWhat then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
Job
WisdomOr if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.
Leviticus
LawThe people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
John
Gospels / JohnSurely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.
Deuteronomy
LawBut if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.
Nehemiah
HistoryOf Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.
Numbers
LawSo they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.
John
Gospels / JohnIn the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
Proverbs
WisdomWherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulMoreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThen hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers.
Numbers
LawNow I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd his brethren, chief of the fathers, two hundred forty and two: and Amashai the son of Azareel, the son of Ahasai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,