When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
Genesis
LawThis twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
Genesis
Law / MosesHe is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWoe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahThen said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king: for thou art a stranger, and also an exile.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.
Acts
History / LukeAnd from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdoth-pisgah:
Joshua
HistoryAnd Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havoth-jair.
Numbers
LawSo David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHave mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
Psalms
PoetryFor I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownBless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
Psalms
PoetryForsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armourbearer slew after him.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelSixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistoryOf Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.
Numbers
LawAll these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.