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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I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.
2 Samuel
HistoryWho against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,
1 Kings
HistoryYe shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge.
Numbers
Law / MosesNoah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesThen arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.
Luke
GospelsThus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
Genesis
Law / MosesSaying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
1 Peter
General EpistlesSo these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Job
WisdomAnd the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.
Judges
History / SamuelBut she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesIn the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:
Numbers
LawFor precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
Job
WisdomAnd all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
Genesis
Law / MosesHe said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
Luke
GospelsBut the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.