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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I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
Judges
History / SamuelThen measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
Genesis
LawThe wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
Psalms
PoetryThus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD.
Genesis
LawAnd ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the LORD your God is he that hath fought for you.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd the sons of Jahdai; Regem, and Jotham, and Gesham, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
Proverbs
WisdomThough he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just:
Luke
Gospels / LukeAll the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
Amos
Minor ProphetsHe also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.
Exodus
LawCan one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
Proverbs
WisdomFrom the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesServants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
Genesis
Law / MosesFor the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.