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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.
Psalms
PoetrySo I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
Deuteronomy
LawThe children of Kirjath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three.
Ezra
HistoryThe inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelThat sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
Isaiah
Major ProphetsI will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHe it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
John
GospelsSo the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahJehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Leviticus
LawThe dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersEven as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesMaster, which is the great commandment in the law?
Matthew
GospelsThus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosTherefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTill I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBehold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryIs there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
Job
WisdomFor it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou do as occasion serve thee; for God is with thee.
1 Samuel
HistoryI stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two maidservants' tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.