For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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What manner of saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come?
John
GospelsAnd the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.
Job
WisdomThe good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahI will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
Exodus
Law / MosesIf I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
Genesis
LawAccording to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjath-jearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD.
1 Samuel
HistoryBecause that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship.
Acts
History / LukeThe LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryOf the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.
Numbers
Law / MosesHave ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.
2 Chronicles
HistoryHis substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
Job
WisdomAnd it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.
Luke
Gospels / LukeTen fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahNow therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
Proverbs
WisdomAmaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThen the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut Sarai was barren; she had no child.
Genesis
LawThey shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.