They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
Mark
GospelsI have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsHe mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.
Job
WisdomAnd Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.
Leviticus
LawHow that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the sons of Pharez were; of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and fought against it:
Joshua
History / JoshuaThou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahHave ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesYea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsThen those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.
John
GospelsOf the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraI love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.
Psalms
PoetryYea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNow when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.
Genesis
LawIf this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at En-dor.