But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
1 Kings
HistoryBut in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
Micah
Minor ProphetsBecause of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahA people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?
Exodus
Law / MosesSix days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThere is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?
John
Gospels / JohnThy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Psalms
PoetryTheir horses, seven hundred thirty and six: their mules, two hundred forty and five:
Nehemiah
HistoryThe LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.
Psalms
PoetryMake thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBehold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:
Numbers
Law / MosesNow it came to pass, that when all the people which were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, then they were glad.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.
Genesis
LawTherefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
1 Kings
HistoryThe son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchiah,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.