I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the LORD, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandments of the LORD your God: that ye may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you for ever.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.
Numbers
Law / MosesAs it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielYet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumThen said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me to day that he will not slay his servant with the sword.
1 Kings
HistoryO LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThat ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
Revelation
ApocalypticSorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.
2 Kings
HistoryShall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?
Job
Wisdom / JobBut the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.
Luke
GospelsMy voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
Psalms
PoetryThey have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
Acts
History / LukeIf thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
Exodus
LawLet not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
Psalms
PoetryWhen one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanOr, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulTo receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
Proverbs
WisdomWherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsDo ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?