For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the king said, Whosoever saith ought unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
Exodus
Law / MosesA land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesNow consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Psalms
PoetryThou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahPraise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.
Exodus
LawOr if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
Luke
Gospels / LukeWith clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Job
WisdomYet heard I the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the ground.
Daniel
Major ProphetsBut when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,
Acts
HistoryAs thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
Genesis
LawAnd the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart.
1 Kings
HistoryCursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesIf his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
Job
Wisdom / JobThe rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
Exodus
Law / MosesNow the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?
2 Chronicles
HistoryUntil the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSave us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.