Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
Job
WisdomNone of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
LawBut to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahServing the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
Acts
History / LukeAs I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.
Acts
HistoryAnd he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed,
Luke
GospelsThen it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD.
Numbers
LawUnto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
2 Kings
HistoryA time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAll these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
Ezra
HistoryAnd Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
Joshua
HistoryAnd they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
Proverbs
WisdomHe brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhich executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
Psalms
PoetryAnd Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation.
Numbers
Law / MosesNow the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed: