It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.
Numbers
LawThey are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:
Numbers
LawHow long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:
Leviticus
Law / MosesLORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are here mentioned by name,
Joshua
HistoryTheir pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Luke
GospelsAnd the fame of David went out into all lands; and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations.
1 Chronicles
HistoryIn one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
Exodus
LawLet a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and thence depart.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.
Acts
HistoryHast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
Job
WisdomAnd from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
Psalms
PoetryAnd this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.