And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
Genesis
Law / MosesI hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
Exodus
LawAnd Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.
Genesis
Law / MosesJavan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBehold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
Psalms
PoetryFor who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?
Psalms
PoetryAnd he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
Exodus
LawAnd the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
Deuteronomy
LawI am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, which is lame on his feet.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her own house.
Luke
Gospels / LukeShe shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThat the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.