Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahI the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielSo it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsDid I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThat search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.
Ezra
HistoryAnd he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.
Genesis
LawTherefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus
Law / MosesMoses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.
John
Gospels / JohnHearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBecause he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter.
Acts
HistoryFor the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsWith him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
Job
WisdomTo him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsGod is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
John
GospelsAnd Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.
Ruth
HistoryAnd whatsoever shall seem good to thee, and to thy brethren, to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do after the will of your God.
Ezra
HistoryAnd he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
Exodus
LawThe twentieth to Eliathah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites.