And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
Luke
GospelsJohn answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.
Mark
GospelsBut the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
Exodus
LawI go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man;
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?
Numbers
LawSo that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
Luke
GospelsHe was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAs a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;
Exodus
LawI will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahThe eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
Job
WisdomBut six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.
Judges
History / SamuelThen they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there were with him two asses saddled, his concubine also was with him.
Judges
HistoryFor, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
2 Samuel
HistoryBut tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThe fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonMy people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.