I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
Job
Wisdom / JobDo not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
Leviticus
LawAnd the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.
1 Samuel
HistoryBlessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThey compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.
Numbers
LawWoe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
Luke
GospelsThen he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,
Acts
HistoryThe river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
Judges
HistoryJesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahNeither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThen said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the LORD hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling.
Daniel
Major ProphetsWhen Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
John
Gospels / JohnOf the children of Judah, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.
Mark
GospelsAnd it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:
2 Chronicles
HistoryReturn, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
Deuteronomy
LawThus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.