The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
Nehemiah
HistoryTrust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHow much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?
1 Samuel
HistoryIn that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
Luke
Gospels / LukeHave the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFor she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd they went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah.
Numbers
LawI will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:
Genesis
Law / MosesHear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
Job
WisdomMoreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Joshua
HistoryThen she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
Joshua
History / JoshuaBut whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Proverbs
WisdomThey say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
Matthew
GospelsWhen I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAccording to the commandment of the LORD they were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers
Law / MosesThe LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAs the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.
Proverbs
WisdomThen said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.