This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he: if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way:
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThe lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
Genesis
Law / MosesOne ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties.
1 Chronicles
HistoryTherefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWhom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
Job
Wisdom / JobBut his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.
Judges
HistoryYet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTherefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he said, The Jews have agreed to desire thee that thou wouldest bring down Paul to morrow into the council, as though they would enquire somewhat of him more perfectly.
Acts
HistoryThe glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
John
GospelsAnd I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahI heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rushing.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.
Judges
HistoryLikewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThen went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.
Ruth
History / SamuelDo ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd when they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.
Philemon
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.