As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.
Nehemiah
HistorySaul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFrom Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBy night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahNow the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
2 Chronicles
HistorySpeak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.
Exodus
LawAnd they were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.
Numbers
LawAnd the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath's sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThen the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.
Matthew
GospelsAnd there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
1 Kings
HistoryAs thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
John
GospelsAnd there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
Job
WisdomWhoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraPeradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons.
Judges
HistoryArtaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a time.
Ezra
History / EzraThe days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Psalms
PoetryAn high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid: