And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersGo and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
Job
Wisdom / JobWho opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesThen went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahI made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
LawAnd Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,
Luke
GospelsThen Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.
Ezra
HistoryI say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBehold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.
1 Chronicles
HistoryTherefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHave ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
Job
WisdomTo translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beer-sheba.
2 Samuel
HistoryThe seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day.
2 Chronicles
HistoryWilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
Job
Wisdom / JobFor great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.