The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
Job
WisdomSon of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
Psalms
PoetryBut into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.
Mark
GospelsSo shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the LORD.
Exodus
Law / MosesIt was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.
Exodus
LawAnd there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.
Exodus
LawAnd she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
LawI am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
Job
Wisdom / JobIn their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
Psalms
PoetryThe nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
Job
WisdomAnd this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.
2 Samuel
HistoryBehold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThat no flesh should glory in his presence.