If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahTherefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
Joshua
History / JoshuaOh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
Matthew
GospelsNow this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.
Ezra
History / EzraThen the disciples went away again unto their own home.
John
Gospels / JohnGod is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahHave I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
Numbers
Law / MosesFor the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiAnd almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
Leviticus
Law / MosesReprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHumble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
James
General EpistlesSeeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
Job
WisdomAnd Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.
Mark
Gospels / MarkIf I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
John
Gospels / JohnThis is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
Genesis
Law / MosesEven so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
Matthew
GospelsTherefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahBehold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?