If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.
Luke
GospelsAnd, behold, Boaz came from Beth-lehem, and said unto the reapers, The LORD be with you. And they answered him, The LORD bless thee.
Ruth
HistoryThe king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaThen stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBy his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Acts
History / LukeBehold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
Psalms
PoetryAnd David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
Matthew
GospelsAnd David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.
Exodus
Law / MosesThou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.
Micah
Minor ProphetsIn the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
Psalms
PoetryBut thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahMoreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, which were in the house of God.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewI have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
John
Gospels / JohnWhich Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIf the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
Exodus
LawThe second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.
Revelation
ApocalypticFor thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?