For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that were in the low plains was Baal-hanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash:
1 Chronicles
HistoryThey only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryThe mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsAnd he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
Acts
History / LukeThen delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.
John
GospelsO LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.
Numbers
LawLet the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
Job
Wisdom / JobAlso regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is your's.
Genesis
LawAnd as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said unto him, So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
Job
WisdomThat thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.
1 Samuel
HistoryBut if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.