Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
Esther
HistoryThe LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahDan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
Psalms
PoetryFor the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd stay ye not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the LORD your God hath delivered them into your hand.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThere was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
Exodus
LawTherefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahKeep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty and eight.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
1 Kings
HistoryA bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulWhen thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHowbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWhat ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
Job
WisdomAnd he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,