For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHe had also seven sons and three daughters.
Job
Wisdom / JobHo, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsTherefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?
John
Gospels / JohnHe shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
Numbers
LawAt my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
Esther
HistoryIn Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.
Psalms
PoetryMoreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
Genesis
LawAnd Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.
Genesis
LawAnd we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnAnd he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren?
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesFor mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.
Leviticus
LawBut the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;
Psalms
PoetryFor he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
2 Kings
HistoryAll that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.