In the multitude of people is the king's honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
Proverbs
WisdomWhen the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahJesus wept.
John
GospelsHe was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd from Heshbon unto Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;
Joshua
History / JoshuaNow Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThere shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
Exodus
LawThe children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
Ezra
HistoryAnd thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
2 Kings
HistorySay, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.
Genesis
Law / MosesThere shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.
Numbers
Law / MosesThe field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelAnd the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.
Judges
History / SamuelAt his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWhat hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsJesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
John
Gospels / JohnNow the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
2 Chronicles
HistoryTo fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.
2 Samuel
HistorySo the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land.
Daniel
Major ProphetsGod having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.