For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses:
Joshua
HistoryHe was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.
John
GospelsAnd all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated; and whosoever had dedicated any thing, it was under the hand of Shelomith, and of his brethren.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd also thus said the king, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which hath given one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing it.
1 Kings
HistoryTremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut 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 ProphetsThere they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, came forth of the midst of the fire.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielOnly the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
1 Kings
HistoryNevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
Judges
History / SamuelHe shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
Matthew
GospelsAnd I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWhich commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
Job
Wisdom / JobThus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
Genesis
LawAnd they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning pertained to them.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThe whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,
Nehemiah
HistoryArt thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThey have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistoryNot to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
Acts
HistoryAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.