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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThat his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
Deuteronomy
LawTherefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahGilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.
2 Chronicles
HistoryNow the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBetter is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
Proverbs
WisdomThere is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.
Exodus
LawShe put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
Judges
HistoryAnd they two made a covenant before the LORD: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahSo the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?
Numbers
LawMine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
Psalms
PoetryThe LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Elisha said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThey shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahMarvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonNow when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve.
Matthew
GospelsHe shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he denied it again. And a little after, they that stood by said again to Peter, Surely thou art one of them: for thou art a Galilaean, and thy speech agreeth thereto.