But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
John
GospelsIf thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
Luke
Gospels / LukeLet them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahDelight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
Psalms
PoetryHast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
Daniel
Major ProphetsFor the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThough the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
Job
Wisdom / JobThou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king's son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.
Exodus
LawYet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsSpeak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.
Exodus
LawTurn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.