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 if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.
Leviticus
Law / MosesHe is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
Job
WisdomAnd when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThere be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:
Proverbs
WisdomBut I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with her suburbs.
1 Chronicles
HistoryYou only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosA cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
Luke
GospelsAnd a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands upon the king's hands.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.
Exodus
LawThen Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
1 Samuel
HistoryBut thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?
John
Gospels / JohnTherefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThe righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonMoses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.