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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
Esther
HistoryBut thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAlso they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.
Nehemiah
HistoryAt midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.
Psalms
PoetryBut there shall not an hair of your head perish.
Luke
GospelsAnd Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
Genesis
Law / MosesHis work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.
Psalms
PoetryIn those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet: and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.
Leviticus
LawI call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
Deuteronomy
LawIt shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahI have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Psalms
PoetryBehold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
Job
Wisdom / JobFrom the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:
Joshua
History / JoshuaBut I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague: and, behold, if the scall spread not, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the scall be not in sight deeper than the skin;
Leviticus
Law / MosesAs in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThese were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward.
1 Chronicles
HistoryI the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
Numbers
LawSo Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.