They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the LORD called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And he answered, I called not, my son; lie down again.
1 Samuel
HistoryBut if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
Leviticus
Law / MosesHave ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosFor he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
Ecclesiastes
WisdomBut he spake of the temple of his body.
John
Gospels / JohnAwake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd provide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor.
Acts
HistoryAnd when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul's cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix:
Acts
History / LukeAnd God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.
Genesis
LawTherefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.
Exodus
LawThe foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd next unto them repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son of Koz. And next unto them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabeel. And next unto them repaired Zadok the son of Baana.
Nehemiah
HistoryI will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnCut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Beth-lehem:
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
Job
Wisdom / JobWhen Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.