As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For neither did his brethren believe in him.
John
GospelsAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
Exodus
LawPrinces also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
Psalms
PoetryFor ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
Matthew
GospelsAnd they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.
1 Kings
HistoryFor with God nothing shall be impossible.
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
Psalms
PoetryAnd in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsFor I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielOf the sons of Nebo; Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau, and Joel, Benaiah.
Ezra
HistoryI will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!
Luke
GospelsTherefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaThe Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.
Ezra
History / EzraThus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTo make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
Job
WisdomAnd Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
Genesis
LawGo not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the people blessed all the men, that willingly offered themselves to dwell at Jerusalem.
Nehemiah
HistoryWoe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: