And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesThou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Selahammahlekoth.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Beth-lehem.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me thine hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
Revelation
ApocalypticShe layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
Job
Wisdom / JobEven unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWho his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterHe that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
Leviticus
LawEven the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
John
Gospels / JohnThe children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty and two.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahI form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjath-jearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row.
Exodus
Law / MosesHowl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsGather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law: