And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersCursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesLike the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of linen.
1 Chronicles
HistorySpecially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesIf one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him:
Deuteronomy
LawYet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and came to Samaria.
1 Kings
HistoryAlso king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
Mark
Gospels / MarkThou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
Job
WisdomAs he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.
Proverbs
WisdomWhen it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
Amos
Minor ProphetsThey came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanA good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,
Philemon
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelTake ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: