Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.
Luke
GospelsI will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
Exodus
LawAnd Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest.
1 Chronicles
HistoryI know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
John
GospelsAnd Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.
Judges
HistoryNeither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that effect.
2 Chronicles
HistoryIf the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
John
Gospels / JohnFor the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesTarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now, and fight with them.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahNow there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the priest with the holy thing.
Leviticus
LawAll the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
Proverbs
WisdomJesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
John
Gospels / JohnThou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.