Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.
1 Samuel
HistoryOnly thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:
Numbers
Law / MosesThe mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
Solomon's Song
PoetryPurge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
Genesis
LawFor I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesFor want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
Job
WisdomFor they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armourbearer slew after him.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelYe shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
Micah
Minor ProphetsHe riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself.
John
Gospels / JohnSet thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsMine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of mine head for ever.
1 Samuel
HistoryI am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnSo the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all things that befell them:
Joshua
HistoryBrethren, pray for us.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSo he left there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD Asaph and his brethren, to minister before the ark continually, as every day's work required: