For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesGet thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.
Ezra
HistoryKnowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
Job
Wisdom / JobWhosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.
Acts
HistoryAnd they remembered his words,
Luke
GospelsAnd I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.
Nehemiah
HistoryThen take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.
2 Kings
HistoryI commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesWho said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.
Deuteronomy
LawSo we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahFear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
Numbers
Law / MosesThou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
Leviticus
LawThou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet.
Luke
GospelsMoreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
Genesis
LawFor if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.