A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
Psalms
PoetryAnd know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulShall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
Amos
Minor ProphetsConfess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
James
General Epistles / JamesYe adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Genesis
LawOn the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
LawAnd it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSo then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulJesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
Revelation
ApocalypticWhom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by Beth-rehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein.
Judges
HistoryAnd it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.
Exodus
LawI have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?
Joshua
HistoryOh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.
Psalms
PoetryBut the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Deuteronomy
LawO generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.