They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThere went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
Psalms
PoetryThen shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together:
Numbers
Law / MosesTherefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahMoreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraIn the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
Judges
HistoryFor thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahLORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Psalms
PoetryFor though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Revelation
ApocalypticFrom the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Psalms
PoetryThis he said, signifying what death he should die.
John
Gospels / JohnLORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
Psalms
PoetryAnd knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Matthew
GospelsO my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of the mount, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,