Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielPlead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
Psalms
PoetryFor many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
2 John
General EpistlesThat this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThere were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
Psalms
PoetryThey are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Psalms
PoetryThere shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
Matthew
GospelsThere is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
Joshua
HistoryAnd of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it shall be, when thou shalt hear a sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt go out to battle: for God is gone forth before thee to smite the host of the Philistines.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanOr with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm:
Numbers
Law / MosesHow oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
Job
Wisdom / JobWhen the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
Matthew
GospelsThus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.