If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThey arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!
John
Gospels / JohnBut first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
Luke
Gospels / LukeOf the singers also; Eliashib: and of the porters; Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four.
Mark
GospelsInstead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsGive, 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
Gospels / LukeFor I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsJesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?
John
GospelsYe shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
Exodus
Law / MosesO praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAnd lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Matthew
GospelsHow are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!
Obadiah
Minor Prophets / ObadiahAnd the mother of the child said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed her.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
Genesis
LawWhat wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
Exodus
LawBut he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
Deuteronomy
LawFor he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.