A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle.
2 Samuel
HistoryThe heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
Numbers
LawAs for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
Psalms
PoetryAnd on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAll the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe LORD shall reign for ever and ever.
Exodus
Law / MosesEvil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBackbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.
Exodus
Law / MosesPaul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale.
Genesis
LawThe vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.