For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Genesis
LawThrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
Joshua
HistorySorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomIn the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.
Numbers
LawAnd he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.
Job
WisdomTo drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
Deuteronomy
LawWatch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielLet there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonTribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
Romans
Pauline EpistlesProving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesUnto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.
Acts
HistoryShemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
Job
WisdomGet wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs
WisdomThey drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.