When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
Genesis
LawThou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.
Psalms
PoetryVerily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
John
Gospels / JohnThe wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
Psalms
PoetrySay not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the LORD to minister unto him.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielO give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
PoetryGod hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHis offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, a silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
Exodus
Law / MosesAgain, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
Matthew
GospelsWhen the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah.
Joshua
HistoryAnd of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west and the south.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?
2 Chronicles
HistoryParthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
Acts
History / LukeAnd David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?
Luke
GospelsAn Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesSpeak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesIn the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first.
Daniel
Major ProphetsA grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.