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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the LORD?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahHe said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
Matthew
GospelsAnd the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThat which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:
Ezra
HistoryKnowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterFor there is no respect of persons with God.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.
Acts
HistoryAnd Ramoth with her suburbs, and Anem with her suburbs:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraI went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
Ruth
History / SamuelThe LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLet them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.
Micah
Minor ProphetsPrinces have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
Psalms
PoetryBe not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
Hebrews
General EpistlesSurely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.
Psalms
PoetryLike a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersYea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name: