Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
Amos
Minor ProphetsBehold, 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
HistoryCan any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
Acts
History / LukeAnd Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
2 Kings
HistoryFor this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSalute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.
Luke
GospelsThe Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThe boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Psalms
PoetryAnd besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.
Luke
GospelsAnd David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. And Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones that were with him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahAnd the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFrom Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThen shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
Esther
History / MordecaiUntil I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBy his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.