And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalath-beer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
Acts
HistoryThe works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBlessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahYe have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSave that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahLet them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
PoetryIt came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
Revelation
ApocalypticIf I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
Psalms
PoetryAnd his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
Numbers
LawThere is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.
Numbers
LawOnly in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.
Exodus
Law(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
Proverbs
WisdomAnd say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielO wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Romans
Pauline EpistlesI hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
Psalms
PoetrySo Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,