Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
Amos
Minor ProphetsThen he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
Job
WisdomNow these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
Genesis
Law / MosesSpeak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
Numbers
Law / MosesThou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the LORD God.
Exodus
LawSaying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
Esther
HistoryAnd every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
Matthew
GospelsThen they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.
Ezra
HistoryTherefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahMy lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
Genesis
Law / MosesHearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.
Judges
HistoryAnd the sons of Samuel; the firstborn Vashni, and Abiah.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe men of Beth-el and Ai, an hundred twenty and three.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.
Judges
History / SamuelOf the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twenty:
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD spoken?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
2 Chronicles
HistoryIn the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.