And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
Psalms
PoetrySo now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?
Judges
History / SamuelAnd he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a crown of gold round about.
Exodus
LawAnd charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the sons of Jehaleleel; Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asareel.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraSearch me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahThey shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBut Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.
Psalms
PoetryThe God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
Genesis
LawBut when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;
Matthew
GospelsA bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsPut them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryGod is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Numbers
Law / MosesThen stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God.
Nehemiah
HistoryBehold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahA talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
Exodus
Law / MosesThese are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,