And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report maketh the bones fat.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
Psalms
PoetryRighteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
Ezra
HistoryO GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWe see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph's:)
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsLift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Psalms
PoetryAnd if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
Joshua
History / JoshuaHappy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.
Numbers
LawAnd she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulWhen Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
John
GospelsBeloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnAnd I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulI know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
Revelation
ApocalypticWho, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.