The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
Psalms
PoetryAnd one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnI am that bread of life.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
2 Kings
HistorySo he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the house.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsSurely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomWhich commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
Job
WisdomThe LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumThey slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWoe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
Jude
General Epistles / JudeAnd the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.
Judges
HistoryThey that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab,
Ruth
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
Judges
History / SamuelWherefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd their brethren, mighty men of valour, an hundred twenty and eight: and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of one of the great men.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistoryTheir knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
Exodus
LawIf I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;