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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahI exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac; Esau and Israel.
1 Chronicles
HistoryWhoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
Proverbs
WisdomThe fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.
2 Samuel
HistoryThen said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
Acts
HistoryThe days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
Genesis
LawBut thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
Psalms
PoetryHe delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
2 Samuel
HistoryWhich when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.
Acts
HistoryYe shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
Leviticus
Law / MosesThen all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThe Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:
Genesis
LawAnd thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.
Exodus
LawAnd Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
Exodus
LawTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBecause the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people hath not hearkened unto me:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsMoreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,