But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Joshua
HistoryThey were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
1 Samuel
HistoryAlso he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
2 Chronicles
HistoryIn the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.
Judges
History / SamuelTherefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFurthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesKeep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Psalms
PoetryBut when Herod heard thereof, he said, It is John, whom I beheaded: he is risen from the dead.
Mark
Gospels / MarkIf they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
Job
Wisdom / JobIf any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
John
Gospels / JohnBut when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Matthew
GospelsNow I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.
Leviticus
LawGo, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he dealeth very subtilly.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.
1 Kings
HistoryBy reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
Psalms
PoetryAnd charged them that they should not make him known:
Matthew
GospelsAnd I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.