Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
Luke
Gospels / LukeHe, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Proverbs
WisdomFor in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielI have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
Job
WisdomAnd of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they brought that which Moses commanded before the tabernacle of the congregation: and all the congregation drew near and stood before the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesSo Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
Genesis
Law / MosesAcquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
Job
Wisdom / JobHowbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
Job
WisdomThe LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSurely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.
Acts
HistorySalute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.
Genesis
LawWhereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAll the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:
Exodus
LawAnd Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and after the house of their fathers,
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.