But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelSo being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesSo Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramoth-gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them.
Joshua
History / JoshuaIf thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWhen my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
Psalms
PoetryThe mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonNeither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.
Judges
History / SamuelBy faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThe mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate!
2 Samuel
HistoryAll the cities were ten with their suburbs for the families of the children of Kohath that remained.
Joshua
HistoryAnd falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.
Acts
History / LukeJesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
John
Gospels / JohnHariph, Anathoth, Nebai,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThe table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the shewbread,
Exodus
LawThat the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
Psalms
PoetryAnd the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanPilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
John
GospelsI am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
Genesis
LawBut the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.