And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD'S battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Matthew
GospelsI thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they do it.
2 Chronicles
HistoryDo we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThe same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.
Acts
HistoryAnd he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.
2 Kings
HistoryBut if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shamer,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAscribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.
Psalms
PoetryFor we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him.
Exodus
Law / MosesThis day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
Deuteronomy
LawAre ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?
James
General Epistles / JamesThat every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
1 Kings
HistoryThus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they presented the burnt offering unto him, with the pieces thereof, and the head: and he burnt them upon the altar.
Leviticus
LawThus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
Daniel
Major ProphetsThe sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.