Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistoryIt is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Mark
GospelsAnd it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only.
Matthew
GospelsBut when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
Matthew
GospelsO my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.
2 Chronicles
HistoryHe loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
1 Samuel
HistoryThey shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
Leviticus
Law / MosesNow when Tou king of Hamath heard how David had smitten all the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah;
1 Chronicles
History / EzraVanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThen goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThose that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesIf a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.