But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
Nehemiah
HistoryBut if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsFor scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen Toi sent Joram his son unto king David, to salute him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer, and smitten him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. And Joram brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
Psalms
PoetryIt hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAs yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.
Joshua
HistoryTherefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Genesis
LawSo Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?
Esther
History / MordecaiOf Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.
Numbers
LawMoab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahNow the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe LORD that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.
2 Kings
HistoryWherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
Exodus
LawAnd the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
Genesis
LawSigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThere was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
Luke
GospelsWhether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's;
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahHe hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd, behold, a man of the company cried out, saying, Master, I beseech thee, look upon my son: for he is mine only child.