The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewIt repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis
LawBut as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.
Job
WisdomDefend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
Leviticus
LawNow the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewComfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWho found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
Acts
History / LukeBut he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?
Exodus
LawAnd it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.
Judges
HistoryLove ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWhat? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesWhen they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Acts
History / LukeFor if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThe vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.
Obadiah
Minor ProphetsFor a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.
Mark
Gospels / MarkI will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.