And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd thirty thousand asses and five hundred,
Numbers
LawWhosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
Matthew
GospelsThe sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
Genesis
LawAnd call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou wilt prolong the king's life: and his years as many generations.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:
Genesis
LawMoreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;
1 Kings
HistoryThe light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report maketh the bones fat.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.
Proverbs
WisdomBlessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
Psalms
PoetryWhat prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
1 Kings
HistoryPrepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHe stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsHe shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
Genesis
Law / MosesTo have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBe merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.
Psalms
PoetryBut the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.
Leviticus
LawAnd whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
John
Gospels / JohnThen they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the king said, And where is thy master's son? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for he said, To day shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.