My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:
Genesis
LawTherefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye valiant: for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.
2 Samuel
HistoryWherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.
1 Samuel
HistoryExalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSeest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahOr darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
Job
WisdomAnd ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Leviticus
LawAnd that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
Leviticus
Law / MosesCan a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsAnd they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
Acts
History / LukeAnd whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewYe have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,