When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?
2 Samuel
HistoryOf the half tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner:
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanRejoice evermore.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesLet the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
James
General Epistles / JamesFor they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
Exodus
Law / MosesYe shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
Leviticus
Law / MosesThou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsI will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAll we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsYe lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
James
General EpistlesAs saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterBy terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
Psalms
PoetryAnd said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOf Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahNow when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
Luke
GospelsAnd I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.