And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
Genesis
Law / MosesTherefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWoe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
Luke
Gospels / LukeI have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.
Psalms
PoetryWhether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBefore the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.
1 Samuel
HistoryI have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Matthew
GospelsGo thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAn horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.
Psalms
PoetryVanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThey reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
Job
WisdomAnd the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahTheir tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsFor if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsShall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
Amos
Minor ProphetsIt shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
Job
WisdomBut now are they many members, yet but one body.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.