When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahIt is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonNow therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraHe then lying on Jesus' breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it?
John
GospelsAnd it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelShall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
Amos
Minor ProphetsI am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
Numbers
LawNow it came to pass, when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;
Joshua
History / JoshuaThen one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
John
Gospels / JohnBlessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Psalms
PoetryHis archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus' feet, and besought him that he would come into his house:
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,
Haggai
Minor Prophets / HaggaiFor there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonJerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.
Ezra
HistoryThere shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
Exodus
LawTherefore they enquired of the LORD further, if the man should yet come thither. And the LORD answered, Behold, he hath hid himself among the stuff.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
John
Gospels / JohnYet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
2 Kings
HistoryThen said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.