Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
Job
WisdomAnd strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
Genesis
LawFor what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThey that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBehold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper.
Genesis
Law / MosesWhoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
Proverbs
WisdomLooking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Luke
Gospels / LukeLet it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewLet every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
Revelation
ApocalypticAm I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBetter is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman called unto the porter, and said, Behold another man running alone. And the king said, He also bringeth tidings.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWas then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.