But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.
Daniel
Major ProphetsThe sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
Job
WisdomHe that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
2 Samuel
HistoryTherefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Jehud, and Bene-berak, and Gath-rimmon,
Joshua
HistoryThen all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.
Ezra
History / EzraThe high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
Psalms
PoetryFor I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAlso Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.
2 Kings
HistoryThe king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;
Joshua
History / JoshuaThat ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWhich was the son of Joanna, which was the son of Rhesa, which was the son of Zorobabel, which was the son of Salathiel, which was the son of Neri,
Luke
Gospels / LukeSpeak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
Numbers
LawAnd Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
Genesis
Law / MosesI told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAm I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
Job
WisdomYe fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
Matthew
GospelsFor he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.