The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days:
Numbers
LawIn that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanI will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz begat Ezekias;
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewGo, enquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book.
2 Chronicles
History / Ezra(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
Deuteronomy
LawThen answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonLike a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks, whereof one went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate:
Nehemiah
HistoryThou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsPraise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
Nehemiah
HistoryFor our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesHowbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThey that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
Proverbs
WisdomThey shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.
Numbers
Law / MosesMoab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhy sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?