LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the vail of the sanctuary.
Leviticus
LawFor the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
Psalms
PoetryAs coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThrough the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWith him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.
2 Kings
HistoryBut what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:
Genesis
LawAnd it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.
Joshua
History / JoshuaA good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomHe answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.
John
GospelsBut I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosFor I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAn unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the LORD hath done to him, as he spake by me: for the LORD hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy neighbour, even to David:
1 Samuel
History / SamuelOf the children of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers
Law / MosesFor our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHe that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.