For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
Proverbs
WisdomThen said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king: for thou art a stranger, and also an exile.
2 Samuel
HistoryWhen I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
Job
WisdomI will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaBut he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.
Leviticus
LawBehold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsCast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.
Job
Wisdom / JobIf thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;
Joshua
HistoryThis is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
Numbers
Law / MosesThou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
Exodus
LawI delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
Mark
GospelsAnd the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Hazar-shual, and Balah, and Azem,
Joshua
HistoryAnd it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
James
General EpistlesNo man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
Leviticus
LawThen thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielIf he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
John
Gospels / JohnHear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.