Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
Leviticus
LawHow God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
Acts
History / LukeBut if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.
Judges
History / SamuelEvery valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not come at him for the press.
Luke
Gospels / LukeLet not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahI acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThey sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus; Unto Darius the king, all peace.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd the princes offered for dedicating of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes offered their offering before the altar.
Numbers
LawThine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples.
John
GospelsAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Numbers
LawAnd of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThat day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahTheir soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThough thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they that had eaten were about four thousand: and he sent them away.
Mark
GospelsSpeak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baal-zephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea.
Exodus
LawTo hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTake away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.
Proverbs
WisdomThere shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.