But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.
Luke
GospelsAnd, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?
Genesis
Law / MosesI will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
Psalms
PoetryBecause thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
Job
WisdomFor the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTherefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWith whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.
Genesis
Law / MosesWherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
Genesis
Law / MosesThat the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWill he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.
Exodus
Law / MosesSeven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsCommand the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof:)
Numbers
LawAnd by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulWe will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.
Exodus
Law / MosesWherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelTherefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
Acts
HistoryAnd the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.
Judges
HistorySeeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;