I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Concerning Kish: the son of Kish was Jerahmeel.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Genesis
LawThe LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way?
Mark
GospelsWhatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBehold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.
2 Kings
HistoryHe will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSalt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Luke
Gospels / LukeBehold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.
Genesis
Law / MosesI communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIn the multitude of people is the king's honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonMy times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
Psalms
PoetryBut if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it?
Luke
GospelsThe young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a trespass offering.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIf I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
John
GospelsParthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,