Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not your's, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIf thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
2 Kings
HistorySo I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjath-jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the LORD, that dwelleth between the cherubims, whose name is called on it.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.
Judges
HistoryAnd Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the LORD'S people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!
Numbers
LawAnd I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesTo declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesTherefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd it came to pass, as she continued praying before the LORD, that Eli marked her mouth.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelNow after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?
Judges
HistoryAs they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaUnto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahCan a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
Job
Wisdom / JobFor I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBehold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
Job
Wisdom / JobSay unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesNeither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,