Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraIf ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
Matthew
GospelsI poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.
Acts
History / LukeFor which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the LORD: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him?
Numbers
LawHe hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
Proverbs
WisdomFor where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewNow the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John
GospelsAnd Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the LORD establish his word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelIf, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahPraise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIs not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesMoreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Leviticus
LawThere were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
Genesis
LawAnd she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan.
Genesis
LawIt came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThere be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.