Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
Job
WisdomAnd when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
Judges
HistoryBut I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
Luke
GospelsThe north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAfter the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
Leviticus
LawAnd the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is our God.
Joshua
HistoryAre not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
Matthew
GospelsAnd all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSay unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
Leviticus
LawBut after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:
Leviticus
LawSo the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
Job
Wisdom / JobThis persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their suburbs.