If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomHe believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsDepart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offerings were twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after that it was anointed.
Numbers
LawAnd, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd all the people went over Jordan. And when the king was come over, the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned unto his own place.
2 Samuel
HistoryYea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre;
Luke
Gospels / LukeNeglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him.
Exodus
LawBehold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAlso in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanNevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner of the ship, more than those things which were spoken by Paul.
Acts
History / LukeFor it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAs a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go?
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
Numbers
LawNow consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
Hebrews
General EpistlesFor the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
Exodus
LawBut though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.