My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
Numbers
LawAshkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahTheir Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSo he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielNo man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.
Luke
GospelsI will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
Genesis
Law / MosesNow concerning Moses the man of God, his sons were named of the tribe of Levi.
1 Chronicles
HistoryYe have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
Haggai
Minor Prophets / HaggaiFor this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulA nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAfter them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the great tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel.
Nehemiah
HistoryIf thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
Acts
History / LukeBehold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:
Genesis
LawSo I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielSo David brought not the ark home to himself to the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
1 Chronicles
HistoryElias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
James
General EpistlesWhich Shelomith and his brethren were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the chief fathers, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had dedicated.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
Joshua
HistoryNow there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:
Matthew
GospelsAnd he answered and said unto them, It is one of the twelve, that dippeth with me in the dish.
Mark
Gospels / MarkNow when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.