Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.
Judges
History / SamuelIf he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
Exodus
Law / MosesBehold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
Acts
History / LukeAnd it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeJesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
John
GospelsAnd they shall take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put them on a bar:
Numbers
Law / MosesDeliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThat say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
Genesis
Law / MosesSo teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Psalms
PoetryThey gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they enquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash hath done this thing.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
Judges
HistoryI am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace.
Acts
HistoryAnd Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
Genesis
LawTo bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
Job
WisdomNow the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.