And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
1 Kings
HistoryBut love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Luke
GospelsThe enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewNow therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThe field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
Matthew
GospelsThy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
Acts
HistoryBut John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
Matthew
GospelsAnd these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
Mark
GospelsBut when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.
Judges
HistoryThe ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonYet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukAnd when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass.
Luke
Gospels / LukeHear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace;
Esther
HistoryI will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / Isaiah(Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)
John
GospelsAnd, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof,
Numbers
LawFor a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.