Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLet the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand;
Psalms
PoetryWho in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
Hebrews
General EpistlesThe LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Psalms
PoetrySo the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with ashes upon his face.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, even the money of every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahHe hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
Job
WisdomCan a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFor all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanLet my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Psalms
PoetryWherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
1 Samuel
HistoryLikewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his censer.
Numbers
LawLORD, remember David, and all his afflictions:
Psalms
PoetryAaron therefore went unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.
Leviticus
LawAnd Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
Genesis
LawWhen the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy
LawThus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahGreet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus: