Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy
LawThen Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.
Matthew
GospelsThou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWill he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
Job
Wisdom / JobWhile the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
Ecclesiastes
WisdomIn that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsMy brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
Job
WisdomFive and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.
2 Kings
HistoryAs arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
Psalms
PoetryGather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beer-sheba.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am?
Luke
GospelsAnd it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;
Joshua
HistoryAnd Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
Exodus
Law / MosesIn whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
Psalms
PoetryAs soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground.
John
GospelsAnd Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith, Master, say on.
Luke
GospelsThese were the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the LORD, according to their manner, under Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.
1 Chronicles
History(Now the half that pertained unto the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
Numbers
Law / MosesMake haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
Psalms
PoetryGiving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesWhat I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewTill I make thine enemies thy footstool.