And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.
Acts
History / LukeAnd 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
Gospels / MatthewBecause they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
Psalms
PoetryBehold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeSo the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.
2 Samuel
HistoryA good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
Genesis
Law / MosesKeep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMoses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Job
WisdomAnd Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelI am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.
Solomon's Song
PoetryWe are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahDo ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?