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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonIn the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulArt thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
Mark
GospelsBut my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahKings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
Psalms
PoetryThey are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
Genesis
Law(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness?
Judges
HistoryAnd for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahIn all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Proverbs
WisdomLift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:
Genesis
LawThe former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
Acts
HistoryTherefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhich leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
Job
WisdomAnd before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God, was allied unto Tobiah:
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial: