But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
Psalms
PoetryAnd in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
Genesis
LawWho smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAsk ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,
Ezra
HistoryAnd Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them:
Joshua
History / JoshuaI beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.
Numbers
LawCircumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsCanst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
Job
WisdomBe surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
Psalms
PoetryThus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThough the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.
Joshua
HistoryThey made shoulderpieces for it, to couple it together: by the two edges was it coupled together.
Exodus
Law / MosesTherefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsOf a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.