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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsGo through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewVerily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.
Luke
GospelsAnd know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesSo I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahYe shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.
Genesis
LawAnd it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.
Nehemiah
HistoryNow therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
Exodus
LawMy harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
Job
WisdomAnd take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Luke
GospelsWherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownBut let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
James
General EpistlesIf they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they of Beth-shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAfter this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John
GospelsOnly the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.
Joshua
HistoryAnd on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThen said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahSo they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.