He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.
1 Kings
HistoryYet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
Genesis
LawBut God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.
Genesis
Law / MosesHe maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
Psalms
PoetryDavid also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBehold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Matthew
GospelsThen said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.
Exodus
Law / MosesMy heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.
Psalms
PoetryMaster, which is the great commandment in the law?
Matthew
GospelsAnd two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
Mark
GospelsAnd it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.
Judges
History / SamuelThus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
Psalms
PoetryBehold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,
Matthew
GospelsIf there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesHe shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,