And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
Proverbs
WisdomThey soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
Psalms
PoetryAnd then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
Leviticus
LawSo Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
1 Samuel
HistoryWhich doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
Job
Wisdom / JobSo the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street.
Judges
HistoryAnd those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?
Numbers
LawYe mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIf an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven.
Ezra
History / EzraA divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonSimeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
Acts
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.
Acts
HistoryAnd he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD: it is a sin offering.