For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai-roi.
Genesis
LawFor in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Matthew
GospelsAnd he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
Exodus
LawFair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.
Job
Wisdom / JobNow when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden.
Acts
History / LukeAnd they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
Exodus
Law / MosesThese things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly:
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAfter these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
Esther
HistoryThou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahThat in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFor we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
Ezra
History / EzraJesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes.
John
Gospels / JohnThat search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.
Ezra
HistoryAnd they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.
Daniel
Major ProphetsThen answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
1 Samuel
HistoryTell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelAnd I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnFor now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son.