But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.
Psalms
PoetryMoreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsKeep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersEven so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraI have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielTruly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:
Ecclesiastes
WisdomBut she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesThe horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHaman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to morrow am I invited unto her also with the king.
Esther
HistoryGod looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
Psalms
PoetryThen he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWhat prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
Exodus
Law / MosesNow it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThe ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.
Exodus
LawAnd when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.