And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;
Exodus
Law / MosesBut the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
Genesis
LawAnd he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Beth-maachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanGo forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.
Solomon's Song
PoetryYea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
Luke
GospelsThe troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
Job
Wisdom / JobBut Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit;
Mark
GospelsFor a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsNevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
Judges
History / SamuelWhen Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHelp me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesSo David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelCome and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than thyself:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraIn the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesAnd there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: