This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd her husband went with her along weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, return. And he returned.
2 Samuel
HistoryBut of all clean fowls ye may eat.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHe that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
Exodus
Law / MosesTherefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWith a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
PoetryFor he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron saw him, and turned to the Lord.
Acts
History / LukeO remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.
Genesis
LawHe that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
Exodus
LawAnd as he talked with him, he went in, and found many that were come together.
Acts
HistoryAnd I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
Genesis
LawBy faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it.
Joshua
History / JoshuaSo he left there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD Asaph and his brethren, to minister before the ark continually, as every day's work required:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraNow in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
Luke
GospelsBecause thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Acts
History / LukeAnd he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
Revelation
ApocalypticSo they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.