Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?
Judges
HistoryThat they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy
LawNow the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings
HistoryLet me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders.
Numbers
Law / MosesNeither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries.
Judges
HistoryBehold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.
Judges
History / SamuelThe wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Genesis
Law / MosesSo I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
Psalms
PoetryBring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them.
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraNow there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewSo Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was laid down. And she took flour, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsMake a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonDoth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?
John
GospelsAnd they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.
Acts
History / LukeMoses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: