I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahFather, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
John
GospelsHe is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesFor I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiWhen thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD.
2 Kings
HistoryEsther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.
Esther
History / MordecaiDoth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
Leviticus
LawAnd for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsAnd of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
1 Kings
HistoryHe shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMake me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBehold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Luke
GospelsHe lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
2 Kings
HistoryFor he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
Matthew
GospelsThou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.