Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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They answering said, John the Baptist; but some say, Elias; and others say, that one of the old prophets is risen again.
Luke
GospelsThou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
Psalms
PoetryAnd God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThere shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
Exodus
Law / MosesWe have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
Psalms
PoetryYet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiLet the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
Psalms
PoetrySo will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielI will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraI got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
Ecclesiastes
WisdomFor thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.
Ruth
History / SamuelAnd he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
Luke
GospelsBut Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Beth-lehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at break of day.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHonour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
2 Kings
HistorySurely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
Psalms
PoetryDid not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.