And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsThou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Psalms
PoetrySo they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?
2 Samuel
HistoryMy kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Job
WisdomBehold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
2 Kings
HistoryAnd when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHe is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.
Numbers
LawSpeak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty;
Numbers
Law / MosesBut I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
LawThe men of the other Nebo, fifty and two.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahTo whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThese are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah.
Joshua
History / JoshuaNevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God,
Romans
Pauline EpistlesBe thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
Proverbs
WisdomThen I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThat the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.