When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd 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
HistoryFor in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.
1 Samuel
HistorySeventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThey shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him.
Luke
GospelsNo man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Matthew
GospelsHowbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
Judges
HistoryIn the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahThe families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward.
Numbers
LawAnd it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut many that are first shall be last; and the last first.
Mark
GospelsShe perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from the LORD.
1 Kings
HistoryAnother parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewNow the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsKnown unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
Acts
HistoryAnd Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel: