For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
Exodus
Law / MosesTherefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahLearn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place:
Leviticus
LawAnd now the LORD your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, and unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side Jordan.
Joshua
HistoryI taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
Genesis
LawI will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
Psalms
PoetryYe are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
John
GospelsJesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
John
Gospels / JohnWhen the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewI hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMoreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
Exodus
LawBut as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
Numbers
LawSo David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;
Obadiah
Minor ProphetsAnd every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
1 Samuel
HistoryBut I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
Job
Wisdom / JobBring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death.
Genesis
Law / MosesNevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.