And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
Job
WisdomAnd came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
Esther
HistoryBut woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
Matthew
GospelsRemember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAll these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Mark
GospelsMoreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahHelez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSeeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd when she had brought them unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.
1 Kings
HistoryAll her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsHe spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts.
Psalms
PoetryA poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
Proverbs
WisdomThat hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWhen therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,
John
GospelsI have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;