He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
Numbers
Law / MosesArt thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
Job
WisdomThe punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now, and fight with them.
Judges
HistoryAnd he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
Revelation
ApocalypticThen said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Ben-hadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahHow long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersDeliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
Psalms
PoetryAnd when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
Numbers
LawAnd there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.
Joshua
HistoryThen were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahThine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiAnd Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThat walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!