Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
Proverbs
WisdomBe thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAs soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
Psalms
PoetryThe land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAs it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
Luke
GospelsShe crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
Proverbs
WisdomNow when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.
Ezra
History / EzraFor our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraYet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
Acts
History / LukeSo shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsTherefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhen goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
Ecclesiastes
WisdomTherefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard.
Genesis
LawSpecially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
Deuteronomy
LawHe hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
Exodus
LawTremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahNow in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.