Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThere go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
Psalms
PoetryNow the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the LORD,
2 Chronicles
HistoryGive, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Luke
GospelsThus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIf we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
2 Kings
HistoryOr with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
Job
Wisdom / JobFrom the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
Psalms
PoetryWho, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
Acts
HistoryAnd he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
Judges
History / SamuelWhoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
Psalms
PoetryThey are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahOf the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering.
Exodus
LawThe women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?
Luke
Gospels / LukeI became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWe took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.
Psalms
PoetryThen answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.