But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBlessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
Psalms
PoetryBut the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,
Acts
History / LukeAnd the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSurely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Job
WisdomThe eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the border from the sea shall be Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsWatch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
James
General EpistlesAnd Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.
Mark
Gospels / MarkIf they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
Genesis
LawSo Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.
Judges
HistoryAnd Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai.
Esther
History / MordecaiArise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.
Genesis
LawAnd do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.