So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
Deuteronomy
LawThen Job answered the LORD, and said,
Job
WisdomBut in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThen Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.
Judges
HistoryFor we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
Genesis
LawWhose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
Job
WisdomBehold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?
Matthew
GospelsVerily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.
Acts
History / LukeAnd they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThere is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor ProphetsA good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.
Psalms
PoetryAnd after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Genesis
Law / MosesThere was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
Luke
GospelsAnd when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.
Ezra
HistorySorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.