(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
Genesis
LawAnd the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
Esther
History / MordecaiIf we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
Acts
HistoryLet them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Deuteronomy
LawSo Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahForasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.
Judges
HistoryThe LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
Deuteronomy
LawThe wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
Psalms
PoetryThey did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThis parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
John
GospelsLet not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
Proverbs
WisdomThis is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
Numbers
Law / MosesJoshua made war a long time with all those kings.
Joshua
History / JoshuaWhatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?
Ezra
HistoryNow therefore, Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shethar-boznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which are beyond the river, be ye far from thence:
Ezra
History / EzraRemember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahYe shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.