And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed.
Acts
HistoryAmaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahIn the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
2 Chronicles
HistorySaying, What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight.
Luke
Gospels / LukeTherefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraA widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
Leviticus
LawAnd he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon,
Ruth
History / SamuelWhat knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
Job
Wisdom / JobFor every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.
Matthew
GospelsDo ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
Matthew
GospelsAnd it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsTake ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
Numbers
LawBehold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
Judges
History / SamuelLet him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
Luke
GospelsBut if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.