The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWhereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesBut I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLet their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
Psalms
PoetryThy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraMany are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
Psalms
PoetryOne young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
Numbers
Law / MosesHe evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
Matthew
GospelsAnd when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.
Acts
HistoryAnd if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWhich had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
Hebrews
General EpistlesHast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.
Psalms
PoetryHe becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:
Acts
History / LukeAnd David the king came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who am I, O LORD God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?