These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
Psalms
PoetryMoreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
Genesis
Law / MosesI will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThey shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.
1 Samuel
HistoryThis is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
John
GospelsAnd this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThe Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
John
Gospels / JohnThen Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.
Mark
GospelsSaul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAs for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHe that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Revelation
ApocalypticO give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;
Romans
Pauline EpistlesA man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
Exodus
LawAnd the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers.
Numbers
Law / MosesHowbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
2 Samuel
HistoryWhen the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.