In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
Deuteronomy
LawLet as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest's that offereth it.
Leviticus
LawWhen I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsI know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the sons of Elkanah; Amasai, and Ahimoth.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBut your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
John
GospelsFor I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.
Job
WisdomAnd all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.
Luke
GospelsAre they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature.
Luke
GospelsThou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd at the side without, as one goeth up to the entry of the north gate, were two tables; and on the other side, which was at the porch of the gate, were two tables.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the son of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraDo they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIf that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
Exodus
LawDid Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?