Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryShall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
1 Samuel
HistoryBut she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
Genesis
Law / MosesTherefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewO remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
Job
Wisdom / JobThough I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulI will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
Psalms
PoetrySubmitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Luke
GospelsAnd this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsVerily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.
Mark
GospelsI will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
Acts
History / LukeIsrael also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
Psalms
PoetryAnd David came to Baal-perazim, and David smote them there, and said, The LORD hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baal-perazim.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.