The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsFor the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
Numbers
LawAnd they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people.
Ruth
History / SamuelAnd the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBehold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of the mount, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head:
2 Samuel
HistoryThis their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonOf all clean birds ye shall eat.
Deuteronomy
LawFrom men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
Psalms
PoetryI will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
Psalms
PoetryAnd God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:
1 Kings
HistoryThat strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.
Mark
Gospels / MarkFor ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.
Exodus
LawSo she went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite:
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.
Genesis
LawMy soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
Psalms
PoetryLet my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Psalms
PoetryWherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,