For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;
1 Samuel
HistoryThy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.
1 Kings
HistoryFor, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonHe restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Psalms
PoetryThen said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews here? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell unto me unto this day?
1 Samuel
HistoryThe God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.
Matthew
GospelsYea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
Acts
HistoryAnd the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
2 Samuel
HistoryBlessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
2 Peter
General EpistlesNevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner of the ship, more than those things which were spoken by Paul.
Acts
History / LukeOne young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
Numbers
LawMy flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTake fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Genesis
LawYe also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.