Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
James
General Epistles / JamesO LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.
2 Chronicles
HistoryIt is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus
LawO Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
Daniel
Major ProphetsNow the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Psalms
PoetryAnd a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
Nehemiah
HistoryI was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Beth-aven.
Joshua
HistoryYet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThis was the word of the LORD which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth generation. And so it came to pass.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBut if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower than the other skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
Leviticus
Law / MosesThe Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsOf which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterNow the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carry away.
2 Kings
HistoryThough I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBe not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles(And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD said, Go up against him.)