The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
Judges
History / SamuelNevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsAnd answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraIn the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
John
GospelsAwake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
Joel
Minor ProphetsO inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.
2 Chronicles
HistoryTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he preached in the synagogues of Galilee.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lo-debar.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanOf old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
Psalms
PoetryAnd of the priests; Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and Jachin,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
Exodus
LawAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesTake heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Hebrews
General EpistlesMen and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
Acts
History / LukeLet them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
Psalms
PoetryFor thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.