For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
Revelation
ApocalypticThe kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
Leviticus
LawThy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.
Psalms
PoetryThen I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.
John
GospelsThen lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahThen said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens:
Ruth
HistoryGod thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.
Job
Wisdom / JobThat hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour's wife,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAll the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.
Joshua
HistoryCome near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahYea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.
2 Samuel
HistoryAfterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.
Luke
GospelsRemember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
Psalms
PoetryYea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?