For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
Psalms
PoetryBath-sheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.
1 Kings
HistoryFor I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd they sat down, and did eat and drink both of them together: for the damsel's father had said unto the man, Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart be merry.
Judges
HistoryWho shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
Job
WisdomBut Job answered and said,
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself: and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.
Ruth
History / SamuelFor the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahTherefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonFor it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
Job
WisdomThen went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahWhy should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBehold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
Ezra
History / EzraJudah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiWho can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumAnd thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the LORD; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering.
Numbers
LawThese be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
Leviticus
LawMany, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,
Acts
HistoryLet us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal: