Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
Job
Wisdom / JobO magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
Psalms
PoetryBlessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
1 Kings
HistoryPeter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAbraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomWho art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsYet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahNow therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
1 Samuel
HistoryNow the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying,
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art, and I will commune with my father of thee; and what I see, that I will tell thee.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.
2 Kings
HistoryHear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
Mark
GospelsAnd this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelSee that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahLift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
Psalms
PoetryAnd David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul.
1 Samuel
HistoryHowbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: