Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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This is the first and great commandment.
Matthew
GospelsAnd when Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even?
Exodus
LawNebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAt his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James.
Mark
Gospels / MarkNow when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum.
Luke
GospelsThen she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?
2 Kings
HistoryTheir throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulTherefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsTill I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesGive not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
Deuteronomy
LawNow when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
Esther
HistoryA false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
Proverbs
WisdomI saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass.
Ezra
History / EzraLet the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
Numbers
Law / MosesLift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
Joshua
HistoryFor though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.