Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewI will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;
Leviticus
Law / MosesCanst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
Job
WisdomOr with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
Job
WisdomPraise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
Psalms
PoetryAnd in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraCast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
Hebrews
General EpistlesThe way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
Proverbs
WisdomFor all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
1 Kings
HistoryThen the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
Psalms
PoetryAnd there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnFor they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWoe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahThe elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThey have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them:
Matthew
GospelsOne dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
Job
WisdomIf the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
Psalms
PoetryFor as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThat they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.
Exodus
LawLet favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.