Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryNow, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHowbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
Exodus
Law / MosesAs Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.
Luke
Gospels / LukeHe sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
1 Kings
HistoryThen goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewIt is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulTherefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
John
GospelsBut Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.
Mark
Gospels / MarkTherefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
Psalms
PoetryThe throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind: and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD.
Joshua
HistoryFurthermore Elihu answered and said,
Job
Wisdom / JobJerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Exodus
Law / MosesNow the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.