And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAlso he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSeeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesIn all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:
Exodus
LawPeradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
Genesis
LawDeliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.
Exodus
Law / MosesI have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonI am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBehold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsThou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
LawFor who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
Ecclesiastes
WisdomNevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesAnd began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews!
Mark
Gospels / MarkYe are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersGo up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.
Haggai
Minor Prophets / HaggaiAnd after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him.