Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThey shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
Exodus
LawAnd the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
Leviticus
LawIt is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd there was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba. And when they had called him unto David, the king said unto him, Art thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant is he.
2 Samuel
HistorySo I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;
Nehemiah
HistoryNow when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,
Esther
HistoryAnd that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
Acts
History / LukeThen there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazon-tamar, which is En-gedi.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAs he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.