And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets(Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.
John
GospelsThe city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.
Genesis
Law / MosesI will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.
Joshua
HistoryCommanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.
Acts
HistoryAnd his wife Jehudijah bare Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraLet us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
Joshua
HistoryBut if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsThou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.
Numbers
Law / MosesYe offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiAnd when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, Is not the arrow beyond thee?
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
1 Samuel
HistoryWho by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
Acts
History / LukeAnd another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThese things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among the three mighties.