The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
Proverbs
WisdomPrepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonCome down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring thy son hither.
Luke
GospelsThou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd he answered and said unto them, It is one of the twelve, that dippeth with me in the dish.
Mark
GospelsNow there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.
John
Gospels / JohnJerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsWhen I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Psalms
PoetryThere went with us also certain of the disciples of Caesarea, and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, with whom we should lodge.
Acts
HistoryThey answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am he. And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them.
John
GospelsAnd the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.
Acts
HistoryAnd when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon, which is in the utmost coast.
Numbers
LawFor even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesBut I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosHe that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.
Proverbs
WisdomWhose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
Proverbs
WisdomThe disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.
Luke
GospelsAnd it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities.
Matthew
GospelsThen said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelNow, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.