For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And God spake unto Noah, saying,
Genesis
Law / MosesThe sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself: and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.
Ruth
HistoryAnd she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
Judges
HistoryWith clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
Job
WisdomI cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.
Psalms
PoetryI am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;
2 Kings
HistoryWe have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterShouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?
Matthew
GospelsThat which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonPraise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
Genesis
LawAnd of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
Genesis
LawAnd they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.
Ruth
History / SamuelIf ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
John
Gospels / JohnMine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.