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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
Job
WisdomBut Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahIn the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
2 Kings
HistoryThen David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him meat.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward.
Exodus
Law / MosesHe delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
2 Samuel
HistoryWill he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNow therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
2 Chronicles
HistoryI am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHe sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:
Numbers
LawAnd they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahFor the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahThese are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house.
Numbers
LawThou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.
Leviticus
LawTherefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWe will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.