But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
Job
WisdomTherefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsHe gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.
Psalms
PoetryAnd David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAs a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThat thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielI spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the LORD the collection that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.
2 Chronicles
HistoryDo therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.
1 Kings
HistoryBut the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
Genesis
Law / MosesJesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.
John
GospelsConsume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
Genesis
LawNow also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahThen saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
Revelation
ApocalypticMine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahOr if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.
Leviticus
Law / MosesDid Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIf I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
Psalms
PoetryAnd shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;