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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
Acts
History / LukeAnd Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs, and Kartah with her suburbs,
Joshua
History / JoshuaWhen thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
Deuteronomy
LawSo I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsEven all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
Numbers
LawThus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIt is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Proverbs
WisdomWe have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIf ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:
Genesis
LawHear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahSurely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSouthward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's, and the sea is his border; and they met together in Asher on the north, and in Issachar on the east.
Joshua
HistoryJoseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
Genesis
Law / MosesOf the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.
Numbers
Law / MosesNevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
Psalms
PoetryAnd of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the men that warred,