This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosBut Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.
Acts
History / LukeYe shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
John
Gospels / JohnTherefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFor the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Psalms
PoetryThe Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
Hebrews
General EpistlesAll these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the king, heard it, that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.
Judges
HistoryAnd thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.
Leviticus
LawWhile I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
John
Gospels / JohnWhen they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way.
Matthew
GospelsGilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
Psalms
PoetryAnd he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Genesis
LawA brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
Psalms
PoetryFor the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, unto the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielLet his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you.