The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.
Genesis
LawAnd the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
Exodus
Law / MosesLet them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
Psalms
PoetryIf he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth the like to any one of these things,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?
Judges
HistoryAnd it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:
1 Kings
HistoryOnly the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.
Joshua
HistoryThe ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
2 Kings
HistoryThus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahHe measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.
Numbers
Law / MosesI will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:
Genesis
LawBehold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.