Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Genesis
LawMy breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
Job
WisdomBefore him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsAnd the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons.
Judges
HistoryIf ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIt is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
Proverbs
WisdomI will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the LORD hath given you the city.
Joshua
HistoryHe is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFlee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHe hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes;
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd 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
HistoryAlso Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons; Simri the chief, (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief;)
1 Chronicles
HistoryYe shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
Deuteronomy
LawLet us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
Exodus
LawNow why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Abimelech, and the company that was with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two other companies ran upon all the people that were in the fields, and slew them.