But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
Job
Wisdom / JobWe see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
Psalms
PoetryFor my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:
Numbers
LawWoe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelNow the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.
Numbers
LawA wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
2 Kings
HistorySix days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd the posts thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
Joshua
HistoryNevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.
1 Kings
HistoryFor the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistorySince thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.