For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsBut sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulForasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
Acts
HistoryWhich doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
Job
WisdomAnd the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Job
WisdomAnd the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath's sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsIn the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
Job
WisdomThe LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
Psalms
PoetryAnd this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThat they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying,
1 Kings
HistoryJudge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI 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.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi:
Exodus
Law / MosesThey reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
Job
Wisdom / JobGet thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
Deuteronomy
LawBut camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the LORD did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.
1 Kings
HistoryThen Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.