While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which was before the king's gate.
Esther
HistoryAs the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,
Joshua
HistoryIt were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
Luke
GospelsIt is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
Exodus
Law / MosesCreate in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIt shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersDeliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
Psalms
PoetryDiscretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
Proverbs
WisdomIn like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanYet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
Job
Wisdom / JobOr if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.
2 Chronicles
HistoryDeliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
Psalms
PoetryThen said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
Deuteronomy
LawNow as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielBehold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNow it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHowbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.