I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God, was allied unto Tobiah:
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law before God.
Exodus
LawAnd it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
1 Kings
HistoryWhich we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
Psalms
PoetryCursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.
Daniel
Major ProphetsGiving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.
2 Kings
HistoryThe one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThough thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsThis is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWhat man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
Luke
GospelsAnd there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Revelation
ApocalypticYea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
Job
WisdomFor thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBecause the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece,