This I had, because I kept thy precepts.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
Psalms
PoetryI have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.
Mark
GospelsAnd as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.
Luke
Gospels / LukeLet every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when Shaul was dead, Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSuch as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersYet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.
John
GospelsA scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.
Proverbs
WisdomSo shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts:
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraSpeak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
Matthew
GospelsBut when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
Mark
GospelsWhen the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.