Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBehold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.
Job
WisdomThen king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute; and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahHe shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
Job
WisdomTherefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielWalk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
Psalms
PoetryThey return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersDepart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersYe shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
Exodus
LawAnd Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.
Genesis
LawAnd they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
Numbers
LawSo persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
Psalms
PoetryMoreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:
Acts
History / LukeSo David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
Genesis
LawTake heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThen David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThou shalt make thee no molten gods.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter.
Acts
HistoryWhereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahTheir wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
Deuteronomy
LawThe sixth to Bukkiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: