They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.
Acts
HistorySo the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.
Numbers
LawNow after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanDraw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.
Ezra
HistoryThen Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThe land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Leviticus
LawI receive not honour from men.
John
Gospels / JohnLeave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he shall take all his fat from him, and burn it upon the altar.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
Revelation
ApocalypticFor thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,
Nehemiah
HistoryNow the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnHast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
Joshua
History / JoshuaI will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.