When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
Matthew
GospelsYe are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnBut thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
Deuteronomy
LawWilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pound of silver, and threescore and seven priests' garments.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThey shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
Psalms
PoetryAll the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
Numbers
Law / MosesChrist hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house within.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraIf his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
Job
Wisdom / JobHe also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai's name.
Esther
History / MordecaiLook down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHerein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John
General EpistlesSo there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.
Judges
HistoryThen came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.