That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.
Proverbs
WisdomThe words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
Amos
Minor ProphetsServants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsNeither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHow excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
Psalms
PoetryMuch food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
Genesis
LawAnd they removed from Bene-jaakan, and encamped at Hor-hagidgad.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThat the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesOf whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
Hebrews
General EpistlesWhich removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
Job
WisdomTherefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesOne kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers
LawThe sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesMarvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThe children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub,
Ezra
History / EzraWhose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.