And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?
Job
Wisdom / JobThe sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWho is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaThis is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.
Genesis
Law / MosesShall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosTerrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
Job
WisdomHe spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFrom thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
Numbers
Law / MosesFor our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
Psalms
PoetryThat which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.
Leviticus
LawAnd so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsOut of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain the house of the LORD.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.
Mark
GospelsAnd he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David: thou shalt both do great things, and also shalt still prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThe portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.