I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
Solomon's Song
PoetryEvery vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
Numbers
Law / MosesHe was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
1 Kings
HistoryLet thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
2 Kings
HistoryYe shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
2 Kings
HistoryThus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd of the priests; Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and Jachin,
1 Chronicles
HistoryThou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahWho ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me.
Acts
History / LukeThen said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me.
John
Gospels / JohnSon of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesBut though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
Proverbs
WisdomWhere is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
Job
Wisdom / JobYet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.
Numbers
LawBeautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAs it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,