Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahTherefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielOne golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
Numbers
Law / MosesThe ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanCanst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.
Esther
History / MordecaiFor I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready mind:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people.
Acts
HistoryFor thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.
Psalms
PoetryNow we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulGo through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsIn which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:
Acts
History / LukeTherefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
James
General Epistles / JamesTake my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHow can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
Job
WisdomZion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahPilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all.
John
GospelsAnd the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.