I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsThus 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 ProphetsThis is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomBy these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Genesis
LawThis title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.
John
Gospels / JohnThou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:
Genesis
LawAnd furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWhoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.
Matthew
GospelsWho shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterThen said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsLet him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
Proverbs
WisdomFor then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThe children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThat ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.
Joshua
History / JoshuaYe shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielEvery thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law,
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.