But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
Nehemiah
HistoryShe openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
Proverbs
WisdomBut now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
Job
Wisdom / JobThou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThen the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
Matthew
GospelsO deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNamely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAfter that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsVerily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
John
Gospels / JohnIt is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelDeliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersDay unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
Psalms
PoetryBut the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWoe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Matthew
GospelsAnd I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd these be the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, having put on their robes, in a void place in the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.
1 Kings
HistoryThe earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.