Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
Proverbs
WisdomBut when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
Matthew
GospelsThen will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.
Genesis
LawAnd your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielIn the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.
Mark
Gospels / MarkTherefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.
John
GospelsMine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesTherefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsAnd the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
Genesis
LawNevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.
Psalms
PoetryAnd all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.
2 Kings
HistoryWhereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraIn the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHave I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they did all eat, and were filled.
Mark
GospelsAnd the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.
Deuteronomy
LawBut I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
Psalms
PoetryBut when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.
2 Kings
HistoryFor when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.