For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
Job
Wisdom / JobI say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.
Mark
GospelsSo the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewIf thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.
Job
WisdomAnd Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaNow when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsMoreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
Numbers
LawThere is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
James
General EpistlesO LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThey that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsAnd it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahOf the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred and fifty.
Ezra
History / EzraFor he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnCursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesElias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
James
General EpistlesIra the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraO God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.
Exodus
Law / MosesBecause it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.