For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Job
Wisdom / JobWealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.
Ezra
HistoryLooking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
Hebrews
General EpistlesA fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTo what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together praying.
Acts
HistoryHe stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsOr if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, he shall come unto the priest;
Leviticus
Law / MosesThou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
Job
WisdomAnd those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.
Joshua
HistoryFor it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.
Judges
History / SamuelOn the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Col-hozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of Shiloni.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd when the man rose up to depart, his father in law urged him: therefore he lodged there again.
Judges
History / SamuelMoreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelI can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Johanan begat Azariah, (he it is that executed the priest's office in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem:)
1 Chronicles
History / EzraTo such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
Psalms
PoetryAnd their coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba;
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.