Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.
Obadiah
Minor Prophets / Obadiah(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanI will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.
1 Kings
HistoryMark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Job
Wisdom / JobTo morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWho can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army.
1 Samuel
HistoryBath-sheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.
1 Kings
HistoryHenoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBe ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:
1 Samuel
History / SamuelLest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
1 Kings
HistoryShadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAs yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBut because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Deuteronomy
LawAll things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.