Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
Malachi
Minor ProphetsSo Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHis lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhere their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Mark
Gospels / MarkTo morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraI am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Psalms
PoetryWe gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God.
Joshua
HistoryMy soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job
WisdomBut thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Genesis
LawIt was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Abraham said, I will swear.
Genesis
LawAnd we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
Judges
HistoryNow the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis
Law / MosesWhat ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.