It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
Genesis
LawFor their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.
Revelation
ApocalypticTheir camels, four hundred thirty and five: six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses.
Nehemiah
HistoryWherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd of the sons of Harim; Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.
Ezra
HistoryFor it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahIt cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
Job
WisdomPlead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
Revelation
ApocalypticFor mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Psalms
PoetryBut they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated; and whosoever had dedicated any thing, it was under the hand of Shelomith, and of his brethren.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBe not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.
Exodus
LawWhich were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
Numbers
LawFor the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesOf the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers
Law / MosesBut Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanLet my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word.