Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
1 Chronicles
HistoryCanst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
Job
WisdomLet Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
Exodus
Law / MosesWherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHe that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnBless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.
Psalms
PoetryAnd thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesHe that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonNow rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the LORD, which he spake to Elijah.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages:
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWoe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsBoth thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
Leviticus
LawFor this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
1 John
General EpistlesNone of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
Psalms
PoetryBut there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;