I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsO LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass, that on one of those days, as he taught the people in the temple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes came upon him with the elders,
Luke
Gospels / LukeIn those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin.
Leviticus
Law / MosesPreserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Proverbs
WisdomBecause thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Revelation
ApocalypticBut thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.
Numbers
LawAnd king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered all Israel.
2 Kings
HistoryMy brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
James
General EpistlesCommand the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:
Numbers
LawOf this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:
Acts
HistoryThey that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
James
General Epistles / JamesBut if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.
Nehemiah
HistoryHe hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.