Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD.
2 Kings
HistoryThe children of Hariph, an hundred and twelve.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahIn the courts of the LORD'S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Hananiah, and Elam, and Antothijah,
1 Chronicles
HistoryMy soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalms
PoetryOf whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesSo she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.
Ruth
History / SamuelHe that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Matthew
GospelsIf the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThe horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
Numbers
LawAnd they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
Matthew
GospelsAnd afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.
Acts
HistoryThis man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.
Acts
History / LukeAnd so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the coasts of Magdala.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWhen I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
Joshua
History / JoshuaLest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersCanst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
Job
WisdomAnd Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters: and their brethren the sons of Kish took them.