But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahMany are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
Job
WisdomAnd the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array before the gate of the city: and the kings that were come were by themselves in the field.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosWherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWhen they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnother parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
Matthew
GospelsHe sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.
Matthew
GospelsWhen they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd they took the things which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people that were at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.
Judges
HistoryAnd Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the LORD, and said unto him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahHear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
Amos
Minor ProphetsBut we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraMy soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.
Psalms
PoetrySo Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put it upon a bar.