Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBy what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?
Job
Wisdom / JobThen said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.
2 Samuel
HistoryThe pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.
Esther
HistoryFor so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.
Mark
GospelsLet another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,
Joshua
HistoryHear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD.
Haggai
Minor Prophets / HaggaiHis mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Job
WisdomBut he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
Acts
HistoryDoth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
Job
WisdomAnd it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed on before the LORD, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them.
Joshua
HistoryThen said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThey angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as one.