Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTo hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukAnd it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
Genesis
LawAnd she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
Revelation
ApocalypticFor Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.
Ezra
History / EzraThen both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWho now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
Job
Wisdom / JobArise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonHe also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
Matthew
GospelsI have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.
Solomon's Song
PoetryCounsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
Joshua
HistoryVerily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanIf I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
Job
WisdomAnd lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesOh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
Job
Wisdom / JobThey go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
Psalms
PoetryAnd David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: