For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsThou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
Mark
GospelsThere is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
Proverbs
WisdomIn measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
Joshua
HistoryWho whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThese cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus were all these cities.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.
Acts
HistoryAnd the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
Acts
History / LukeWoe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
Revelation
ApocalypticI will hear thee, said he, when thine accusers are also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's judgment hall.
Acts
HistoryCasting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAs also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
2 Peter
General EpistlesThou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThe wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the brasen altar, and the brasen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar,