I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBut if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.
Leviticus
LawThen Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.
Exodus
LawBecause they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.
Psalms
PoetryI will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:
Genesis
Law / MosesBecause thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahO LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
Psalms
PoetryAnd ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd next him was Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself unto the LORD; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valour.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraYea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Psalms
PoetryThis is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.
Genesis
LawAll these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraO house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahNow the LORD hath brought it, and done according as he hath said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhat then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
John
GospelsNow the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchi-shua: and the names of his two daughters were these; the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all things which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou consecrate them.
Exodus
Law / MosesWhen they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near unto the altar, they washed; as the LORD commanded Moses.