Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
Psalms
PoetryThen Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.
Matthew
GospelsAnd all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
Job
WisdomWoe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.
Luke
GospelsFor they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
John
Gospels / JohnThen shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahNow it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIf I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Job
WisdomAnd Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.
Genesis
LawBut the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd when he had declared all these things unto them, he sent them to Joppa.
Acts
History / LukeI clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' room: and Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.
Acts
History / LukeLikewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
1 Peter
General EpistlesRemove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
Psalms
PoetryFor every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
James
General EpistlesThe LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahVerily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.