But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
Psalms
PoetryWho smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?
Psalms
PoetryAnd when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Acts
History / LukeBut as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe children of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one.
Ezra
History / EzraSee, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.
Numbers
LawWhereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
Job
Wisdom / JobHe that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
Psalms
PoetryThere is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
Psalms
PoetryYe stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBeware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Matthew
GospelsO that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsTherefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.
Deuteronomy
LawMen shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI am the God of Beth-el, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
Genesis
Law / MosesThou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.