He must increase, but I must decrease.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?
Mark
GospelsAnd Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be here with you none of the servants of the LORD, but the worshippers of Baal only.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSpeak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
James
General EpistlesAnd ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelI have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumThis I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThen called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
Psalms
PoetryAnd she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
Judges
History / SamuelIf thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
Job
WisdomAnd his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesThy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.
Daniel
Major ProphetsWhen he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
Psalms
PoetryAnd ye are witnesses of these things.
Luke
GospelsWhen Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBehold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.