Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us.
Genesis
LawArt thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsIn his days did Hiel the Beth-elite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.
1 Kings
HistoryTherefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHave we not power to eat and to drink?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;
Leviticus
Law / MosesWhen their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.
Psalms
PoetryAfter him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired the other piece, from the turning of the wall unto the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
Nehemiah
HistoryThey that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
LawThat I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
Genesis
Law / MosesHaste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
Genesis
Law / MosesTill the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsBut it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
Psalms
PoetryOr if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Numbers
Law / MosesShe openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
Psalms
PoetryAnd ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.