But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.
Luke
Gospels / LukeUnto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
2 Kings
HistoryFor ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesThe mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the LORD; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.
Acts
HistoryNow therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
Numbers
LawAs a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and he saith to his disciples, Sit ye here, while I shall pray.
Mark
GospelsAnd he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James.
Mark
GospelsThen Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahIn these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
Acts
HistoryNow therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may return answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us?
2 Chronicles
HistoryTake you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
Deuteronomy
LawYet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThey drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.