They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonOtherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.
1 Kings
HistoryIf we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBut what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses.
Matthew
GospelsEluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father of Beth-lehem.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraMy son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonYour mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterFor thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBelieve me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.
John
Gospels / JohnNeither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
Acts
History / LukeNot as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesHear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.
Job
WisdomFor God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonFor God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesYe are they which have continued with me in my temptations.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.
Judges
History / SamuelThe children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Tamah,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for the LORD hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on.
2 Kings
HistoryHe shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.