And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAlso we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThen said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
Acts
HistoryAnd let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAll that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.
Exodus
LawFor after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHis work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahOn the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
Leviticus
Law / MosesIn holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
Luke
GospelsAnd, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThat thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Humtah, and Kirjath-arba, which is Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their villages:
Joshua
HistoryThe way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.
Numbers
LawSo let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
Judges
HistoryThere is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonUnto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.