When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the LORD.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahBe merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.
Psalms
PoetryThat the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were numbered, offered:
Numbers
Law / MosesFor therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsO thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielMy beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.
Numbers
LawAnd Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahA several tenth deal unto one lamb, throughout the seven lambs;
Numbers
LawBut if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.
Numbers
LawAnd Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd they passing by Mysia came down to Troas.
Acts
HistoryThen said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:
Luke
Gospels / LukeBeing made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
Hebrews
General EpistlesNow when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.
Acts
History / LukeAnd ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.
Leviticus
LawAnd beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
2 Peter
General EpistlesAnd I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Matthew
GospelsYet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.