For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
Genesis
Law / MosesThey have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielCommand therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Beth-lehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHe caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
Psalms
PoetryThen she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say thee nay.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahNow therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThey have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.
Numbers
LawAnd it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWhile Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.
Acts
History / LukeAnd he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
Exodus
Law / MosesThese were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.
Nehemiah
HistoryReturn, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsJesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?
John
GospelsWhat profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersShe seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.
Proverbs
WisdomThose that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.