They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonNow therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
Leviticus
LawAnd I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThen the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
Joshua
HistoryMen's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Luke
Gospels / LukeMuch every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesNeither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahNow this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.
Ezra
HistoryAnd he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
Judges
HistoryAnd after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
Nehemiah
HistorySome of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.
Acts
HistoryAnd Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahHear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.
Luke
Gospels / LukeIt is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd when he had gone a little further thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets.
Mark
GospelsYet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.