And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
Job
Wisdom / JobBut yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWhen he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
Judges
History / SamuelBehold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.
Matthew
GospelsBehold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.
Acts
HistoryThey shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesHis mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Psalms
PoetryShake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's.
Luke
Gospels / LukeIniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersShe sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
1 Peter
General EpistlesIn those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAt the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter.
Daniel
Major ProphetsThese are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesNeither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.
Obadiah
Minor Prophets / ObadiahThe LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.
Ruth
History / SamuelSo there was a division among the people because of him.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.