Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
Job
WisdomAnd the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
Exodus
LawAnd the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
Luke
GospelsThou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielO God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsYet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahDeliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
Psalms
PoetryThe sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Genesis
LawAnd Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahKnown unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
Acts
HistoryAnd to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the LORD:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThen all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.
Ezra
HistoryAnd the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
Genesis
LawNow therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?
John
GospelsAnd when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.
Mark
GospelsAnd hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.
Ezra
History / EzraThy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.