Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnAnd thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWhen the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD'S house.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahSurely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
Numbers
LawAnd the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
Joshua
HistorySo Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?
Esther
HistoryAnd bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.
Genesis
LawAnd these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.
Genesis
LawI sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
Solomon's Song
PoetryHow weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonI will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
Psalms
PoetryThou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
Psalms
PoetryWhen the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria.