He must increase, but I must decrease.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
Revelation
ApocalypticThe ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia.
Daniel
Major ProphetsI will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.
Psalms
PoetryIf I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd at Hazar-shual, and at Beer-sheba, and in the villages thereof,
Nehemiah
HistoryThe LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
Psalms
PoetryThe LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Ittai answered the king, and said, As the LORD liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWho is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAll that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
Esther
HistoryAnd it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBeing then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulSo there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistoryMy knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThen thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.