The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.
Joshua
HistoryFor thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy
LawShe crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
Proverbs
WisdomMoreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,
2 Samuel
HistoryEvery vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the name of Hebron before was Kirjath-arba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.
Joshua
History / JoshuaFor I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.
John
Gospels / JohnBut the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those.
Daniel
Major ProphetsElias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
James
General EpistlesAnd it came to pass, that he tarried many days in Joppa with one Simon a tanner.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewIn the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
Job
Wisdom / JobHowbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFor my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
Job
WisdomThis I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulNow it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
Ruth
History / SamuelAnd I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.