Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
Acts
HistoryNow therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesIn the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBehold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahA righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
Exodus
LawAs for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
2 Chronicles
HistoryIt is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThere is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
Genesis
LawAnd thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.
Genesis
LawAfter two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
Job
WisdomAnd his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
Exodus
LawAnd in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.
Exodus
LawA fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHis troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.
Luke
GospelsThus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.