He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.
Luke
GospelsAnd he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnBecause it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
Job
Wisdom / JobAs the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers
LawAnd ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Leviticus
Law / MosesI was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahThey shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAre not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
Job
WisdomTherefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
Numbers
LawFor whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnTake heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Acts
History / LukeAnd thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThese things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
John
GospelsThe vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
Leviticus
LawAnd it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
Exodus
LawYe lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
James
General EpistlesFor my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother's nakedness?