For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Proverbs
WisdomThen the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Exodus
Law / MosesNow the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
1 Kings
HistoryYea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side.
Exodus
Law / MosesThy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
Solomon's Song
PoetryThen straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.
Acts
HistoryAnd did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
Numbers
LawAnd the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?
Judges
HistoryManasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsYea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsAnd thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:
Exodus
LawHath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.
Luke
GospelsThine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonBless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
Psalms
PoetryWhen a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Leviticus
LawAnd sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
Revelation
ApocalypticBut when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomHearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness: