The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
Genesis
LawThen went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan,
Matthew
GospelsAnd he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.
Genesis
LawThey break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits;
Mark
Gospels / MarkReturn, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
Job
WisdomBut the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
Genesis
Law / MosesForasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.
Daniel
Major ProphetsBut above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
James
General EpistlesAnd the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.
Esther
HistoryThe men of the other Nebo, fifty and two.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThe secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesTo wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars;
2 Chronicles
HistoryWatch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the LORD for a drink offering.
Numbers
LawAnd after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.
Genesis
LawThe eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, which is lame on his feet.
2 Samuel
HistoryI am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOf Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD.