For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
Matthew
GospelsYea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsLest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
Psalms
PoetryI also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
Judges
History / SamuelAnd as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.
Luke
GospelsAnd David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
1 Samuel
HistoryBehold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the LORD.
Exodus
LawBut the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
Mark
GospelsAnd he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelMy little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAnd when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Revelation
ApocalypticI said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.