As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ocran.
Numbers
LawThou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
Psalms
PoetrySo the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
Exodus
LawWhen the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
Deuteronomy
LawAnd your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea, and shall go on to Hazar-addar, and pass on to Azmon:
Numbers
Law / MosesLo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomSee, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
Deuteronomy
LawJesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
John
GospelsWhich of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
Luke
Gospels / LukeIn that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsBehold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto thee.
Joshua
HistoryAnd he put them all together into ward three days.
Genesis
Law / MosesWhat is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job
Wisdom / JobBring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.
Psalms
PoetryThere is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
Exodus
Law / MosesFor had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
John
GospelsTherefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.