I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.
Joshua
HistoryA froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
Exodus
LawFor they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children.
Matthew
GospelsI wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
Psalms
PoetryHe was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.
Exodus
LawShall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThey looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWhy 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.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukThou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet.
Luke
GospelsAnd when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
Mark
Gospels / MarkFor he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesNow will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAs the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
Esther
HistoryWhen he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
John
GospelsThe tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I?
Matthew
GospelsThen the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.
2 Samuel
HistoryIn the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.