Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O LORD, and it shall be blessed for ever.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;
Ezra
HistoryWherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
Psalms
PoetrySo Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBut with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahI have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
Job
Wisdom / JobFor among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
2 Samuel
HistoryUntil the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.
Judges
HistoryAnd should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
Mark
GospelsShe is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
Proverbs
WisdomNow because we have maintenance from the king's palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore have we sent and certified the king;
Ezra
HistoryAnd his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesSurely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake.