And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
Luke
GospelsHe also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd looking round about upon them all, he said unto the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he did so: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what we shall do.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAs I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Genesis
LawThe fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThat the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesHave mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Psalms
PoetryPreserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice,
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
Exodus
LawJerahmeel had also another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth deals to each ram of the two rams,
Numbers
LawAll this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomI rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.
Psalms
PoetryThen came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,