The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesTake his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.
Acts
HistoryHear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosNow I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielHe will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
Job
Wisdom / JobWith the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Matthew
Gospels / Matthew(Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
Exodus
Law / MosesShall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSo Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?
2 Samuel
HistoryBaldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsPlead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBehold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
John
GospelsWill ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
Job
Wisdom / JobBut Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
Genesis
LawAnd their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty and six. All these men were chief of the fathers in the house of their fathers.