The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaSon of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHow long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
Psalms
PoetryExcept the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
Genesis
LawHow then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
Job
Wisdom / JobMy lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?
Genesis
Law / MosesAs they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
Acts
History / LukeAnd it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke;
Deuteronomy
LawI believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;
Leviticus
LawFor Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulTell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him,
Acts
History / LukeFor the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsI should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAs he spake these words, many believed on him.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahO Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWe then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not their's, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;