Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.
Exodus
Law / MosesShew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOnly fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesGreat in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
Judges
History / SamuelThat they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he brought the burnt offering, and offered it according to the manner.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd these were they which went up also from Tel-melah, Tel-haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.
Nehemiah
HistoryYet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
Amos
Minor ProphetsSo she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.
Ruth
History / SamuelAnd they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAnd I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.
Psalms
PoetryAs it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielBut his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
Genesis
LawI will hear thee, said he, when thine accusers are also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's judgment hall.