I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the LORD: and the bullock shall be killed before the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThese words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.
John
Gospels / JohnThese things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
John
GospelsThen king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.
1 Kings
HistoryThen the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.
Matthew
GospelsAnd they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they brought them before the tabernacle.
Numbers
LawAnd judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHe shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him.
Daniel
Major ProphetsBecause Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
Esther
History / MordecaiWhat shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulIf his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Job
Wisdom / JobBut he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThat he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus
Law / MosesHe saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.
Mark
Gospels / MarkBut Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
Joshua
History / JoshuaBut Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.
2 Kings
HistoryFor, as the LORD liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that answered him.
1 Samuel
HistoryFeed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahThe inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThat I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.