Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
Job
WisdomHear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSurely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
Job
WisdomAnd Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
Genesis
LawFor the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.
2 Chronicles
HistoryDraw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;
Nehemiah
HistoryI am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
Matthew
GospelsGod is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWoe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahI also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
Job
WisdomO give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge, whither he was fled;
Numbers
LawI am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahThat I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son.
2 Samuel
HistorySo Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men that were with him a feast.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHis sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.