Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahBe thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielYe shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.
Revelation
ApocalypticAgainst an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulNow there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.
Acts
HistoryThe king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;
Joshua
HistoryThen went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
Matthew
GospelsBut she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesBut when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
Matthew
GospelsThe stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
Job
WisdomHis offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one 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
LawAnd he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.
Joshua
History / JoshuaBut when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.
Numbers
LawThen Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThe pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
Job
Wisdom / JobHe suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;