And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahConcerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielSo also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAlso in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD'S house.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesHe gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
Psalms
PoetryHow much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThey are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
2 Kings
HistoryJehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel.
2 Kings
HistoryFor neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesYe shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valour, famous throughout the house of their fathers.