And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went to the battle.
2 Chronicles
HistoryTheir feet are swift to shed blood:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God?
Luke
GospelsThou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramoth-gilead? And he answered him, I am as thou art, and my people as thy people; and we will be with thee in the war.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples,
Matthew
GospelsAnd then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.
John
GospelsForasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.
Daniel
Major ProphetsWhen I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesUnto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesFor what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
Job
WisdomAnd they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?
Judges
History / SamuelWhereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
Psalms
PoetryObey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these are the dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.