Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsThen the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.
Numbers
Law / MosesBetter is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThese things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
1 John
General EpistlesThen Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.
1 Samuel
HistoryCurse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.
Judges
HistoryWho hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahO my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut Job answered and said,
Job
Wisdom / JobNevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulI beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Esther
History / MordecaiIn Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesLook down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWith the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
2 Samuel
HistoryBeside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
Numbers
Law / MosesA sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWoe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
Matthew
GospelsAnd the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
Numbers
Law / MosesIf now thou hast understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words.
Job
WisdomBecause of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.