And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.
Acts
HistoryNow it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
Ruth
History / SamuelAll the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people were come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWhen ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;
Leviticus
LawStrangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaDamascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThese things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among three mighty men.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFor the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
Deuteronomy
LawI am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
Solomon's Song
PoetryLet the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBy long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
Numbers
LawAnd they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
1 Samuel
HistoryThey fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
Judges
HistoryFor yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.
Deuteronomy
LawO give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
PoetryAnd there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.