And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.
Genesis
LawAnd the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said unto him, Shew us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will shew thee mercy.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
Acts
HistoryHerein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnAnd it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.
Judges
History / SamuelI will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?
Hosea
Minor ProphetsLest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.
Job
Wisdom / JobTake counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,
Genesis
LawIf ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHer Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:
Lamentations
Major ProphetsBehold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahTherefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSo also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesI will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaFor that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomWhen the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.
Proverbs
WisdomWaters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsFor he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
James
General EpistlesNotwithstanding the children of Korah died not.
Numbers
LawAnd when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.
Acts
HistoryAnd blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.