Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
Psalms
PoetryCanst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
Job
WisdomAnd Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
Mark
Gospels / MarkI am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
Solomon's Song
PoetryThou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsO Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:
Genesis
Law / MosesLo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanStay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
Luke
Gospels / LukeDeck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty.
Job
WisdomThen Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;
Judges
History / SamuelI also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
Judges
HistoryAnd for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
Leviticus
LawAnd the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
Mark
Gospels / MarkBoth to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.