The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.
Mark
GospelsAnd I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnFor thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
Psalms
PoetryThe LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
1 Kings
HistoryThen said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.
Acts
History / LukeFor this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahMany times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd he said unto him, We are passing from Beth-lehem-judah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence am I: and I went to Beth-lehem-judah, but I am now going to the house of the LORD; and there is no man that receiveth me to house.
Judges
HistoryNevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesAnd forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.
Mark
GospelsAnd after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.
Acts
History / LukeFor where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Matthew
GospelsAnd thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:
2 Samuel
HistoryTherefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us.
Deuteronomy
LawTherefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
Judges
History / SamuelHe hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahMake us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
Psalms
PoetryThe LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
Exodus
LawThou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.