And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulOr all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.
Leviticus
LawWho is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAgain the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahTheir visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsHear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
John
GospelsWisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAs with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
Psalms
PoetryFor I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonI will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukLikewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan;
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 / MosesHitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
John
Gospels / JohnChrist is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAnd all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
Genesis
LawFor the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.
Ezra
History / EzraHow fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
Solomon's Song
PoetryAfter him repaired Benjamin and Hashub over against their house. After him repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah by his house.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.