But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they went up into the city: and when they were come into the city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to go up to the high place.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself: and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.
Ruth
History / SamuelThey shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.
Genesis
LawAnd it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWoe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWhen the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
Job
WisdomAnd Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples.
John
GospelsThus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.
2 Chronicles
HistoryNow go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
Numbers
LawIn that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd 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
History / JoshuaI will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.
Daniel
Major ProphetsThen Peter went down to the men which were sent unto him from Cornelius; and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what is the cause wherefore ye are come?
Acts
History / LukeTherefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
John
Gospels / JohnI have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
Job
Wisdom / JobThat there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.