Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
Psalms
PoetryMaaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahIn that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
LawThen saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Matthew
GospelsSo they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
Psalms
PoetryAnd we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
Genesis
LawThen said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielBut the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesOught ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWoe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukFor the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTherefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
2 John
General Epistles / JohnBut to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.
Proverbs
WisdomHe shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.
Leviticus
Law / MosesOn the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
Numbers
LawThen I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord?
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThen shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.