When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod.
Numbers
Law / MosesThe light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.
Numbers
LawBe not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
Psalms
PoetryThe children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and one.
Nehemiah
HistoryWhat thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.
Acts
HistoryThen went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWhich also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
Acts
History / LukeSurely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Jude
General EpistlesI am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThe soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahLet the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhich have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well:
3 John
General Epistles / JohnNow God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.
Numbers
LawAnd it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.