Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Job
WisdomAnd he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWe then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulO how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThese have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
Revelation
ApocalypticFor we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesBehold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSo the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
Mark
Gospels / MarkBut when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.
Luke
GospelsThat the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?
John
GospelsSurely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAs every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
1 Peter
General EpistlesAnd when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it at your own will.
Leviticus
LawAnd Coz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.
Genesis
LawYet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
Genesis
LawFor wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.