And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
Psalms
PoetryHear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Job
WisdomBut thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAgain he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I saw the LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanDoth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.
Leviticus
Law / MosesHow long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsA scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God.
Ezra
History / EzraThe mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsFrom men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFeed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
1 Peter
General EpistlesAnd when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not.
2 Kings
HistoryBut yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,
Revelation
ApocalypticFor thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHer princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.