Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.
Numbers
LawThe forefront of the one was situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd there fell ten portions to Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead and Bashan, which were on the other side Jordan;
Joshua
HistoryLet not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight;
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite,
1 Chronicles
HistoryIn that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
Luke
Gospels / LukeWith a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd his brethren, men of valour, were two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the king.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraNotwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIf it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
Esther
History / MordecaiTo whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsDo not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
Matthew
GospelsFor this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the LORD spake unto Aaron, saying,
Leviticus
LawThen thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:
Deuteronomy
LawSalute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the household of Narcissus, which are in the Lord.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.
Exodus
LawThe LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.