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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFor thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.
Psalms
PoetryTurn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other.
Exodus
LawAnd I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to record, and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel:
1 Chronicles
HistoryThus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
Exodus
LawAsk me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.
Genesis
LawThis title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.
John
Gospels / JohnOut of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
Deuteronomy
LawThou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the LORD hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.
Luke
GospelsAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.
Numbers
LawAnd Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a crown of gold round about.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south: one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraNow this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.