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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
Haggai
Minor Prophets / HaggaiI will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnBut thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
Psalms
PoetryO Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.
Genesis
Law / MosesI am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesAnd they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
Exodus
LawMy lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIra the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Antothite,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd out of the tribe of Asher; Mashal with her suburbs, and Abdon with her suburbs,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraTurn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ish-bosheth said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine?
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
Exodus
Law / MosesYe have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD.