And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And now, O Lord GOD, thou art that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBecause that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship.
Acts
HistoryAnd Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron, and said, Thus saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push Syria until they be consumed.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThey have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonMy soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
Psalms
PoetryFor the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.
Judges
HistoryAs therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
Genesis
LawBehold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraIn all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
Job
Wisdom / JobEvery thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.
Numbers
Law / MosesTell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelAnd the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
Mark
Gospels / MarkHe that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak.
Numbers
LawAnd thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThey saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
Acts
HistoryAnd the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.