When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
Mark
Gospels / MarkIf I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
Jonah
Minor ProphetsAnd if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesIf then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd unto the sons of Kohath, which were left of the family of that tribe, were cities given out of the half tribe, namely, out of the half tribe of Manasseh, by lot, ten cities.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
Job
WisdomAnd about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Matthew
GospelsMake bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesMany are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:
Deuteronomy
LawSay not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.
Proverbs
WisdomIn his days did Hiel the Beth-elite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWhich was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.
Acts
HistoryAnd he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.