And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were:
Joshua
History / JoshuaBehold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.
Solomon's Song
PoetryO God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWomen received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and En-gedi; six cities with their villages.
Joshua
HistoryAnd Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
Judges
HistoryIt is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaYe Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsAnd now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship.
Acts
HistoryFor thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.
2 Samuel
HistoryThus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThese are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:
Leviticus
Law / MosesHe will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahI say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Job
Wisdom / JobBut Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
2 Kings
HistoryA fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThey that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
Psalms
PoetryBut if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.