Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.
Job
Wisdom / JobBut as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
Luke
GospelsAnd this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,
Ezra
History / EzraAnd they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.
Luke
GospelsFor yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBut if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.
Numbers
LawThen he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.
2 Samuel
HistoryGod 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
LawHis scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead him away safely.
Mark
Gospels / MarkBut a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownNow the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand.
John
Gospels / JohnTherefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.