In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesSave that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAnd now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahUpon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you.
Exodus
Law / MosesSo they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnappar brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest that are on this side the river, and at such a time.
Ezra
History / EzraTherefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsI said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
John
Gospels / JohnAs sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThink not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesMy heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.
Psalms
PoetryThe inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsConsider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.
Job
WisdomBut what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.