Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielBehold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen there went certain, and told David how the men were served. And he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBehold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.
Solomon's Song
PoetryFor thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name.
Psalms
PoetryO LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.
Matthew
GospelsNow the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahDivers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.
Numbers
Law / MosesForty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
Matthew
GospelsMake you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownWhen Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer,
2 Samuel
HistoryThe officers answered, Never man spake like this man.
John
Gospels / JohnThe princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsThen shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil.
Numbers
LawAnd it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAfter these things Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise shewed he himself.