As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
2 Samuel
HistoryIf I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
Job
WisdomYe have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
Matthew
GospelsFor whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
Matthew
GospelsWhile he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
Job
WisdomThis image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.
2 Chronicles
HistoryI will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?
Luke
Gospels / LukeBe ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWhen the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesNow the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he shewed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1 Kings
HistoryBut some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesA wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonMy little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnThen Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsEither make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
Matthew
GospelsAnd said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?