And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
Esther
HistoryAnd seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
Joshua
HistoryAnd when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.
Genesis
LawBut whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:
1 Kings
HistoryAnd 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
HistoryNow therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonYe shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThat thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsJesus answered him, Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did others tell it thee of me?
John
Gospels / JohnLet my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAll those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the house of their fathers,
Numbers
LawThe words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,
Nehemiah
HistoryIs this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Psalms
PoetryOf the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Mark
GospelsIn the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
Exodus
LawFor, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;