Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThen said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielOut of the portion of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them.
Joshua
HistoryThey are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Psalms
PoetryHave ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsMoreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.
1 Samuel
HistoryGive instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
Proverbs
WisdomSo Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
2 Samuel
HistoryThou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
Joshua
HistoryThen certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
Acts
History / LukeThat he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWhatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Leviticus
LawFor thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.
Judges
HistoryKnow ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesNow is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.