For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesEphraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaI will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
Matthew
GospelsAnd she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsTo turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd they gave unto them, of the cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs; they gave also Gezer with her suburbs,
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
Job
WisdomSo the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich.
Luke
GospelsSaying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.
Acts
History / LukeWherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
Genesis
LawAnd I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Ezra
HistoryBut the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.