And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
Job
WisdomFor the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the house.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsTherefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesThe house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWhen thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and fought against it:
Joshua
History / JoshuaWe have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD.
Numbers
LawThe portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhich were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
Job
WisdomThese chief fathers of the Levites were chief throughout their generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles
HistoryCome against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
Luke
GospelsThen the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?
Esther
History / MordecaiFor John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThe princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David's men with him, over Jordan?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
Esther
History / MordecaiTheir camels, four hundred thirty and five: six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAll things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
John
GospelsThen were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.