As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsHe shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
Job
WisdomWhat? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsIf he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be very wroth, then be sure that evil is determined by him.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
Psalms
PoetryMake no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAbide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
John
GospelsShall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThen he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?
Judges
History / SamuelAnd they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,
Luke
GospelsAnd many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterI was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahThen hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he lighted the lamps before the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus
Law / MosesI likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?