For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
Psalms
PoetryEven the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahBy faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
1 Kings
HistoryBeloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
3 John
General EpistlesServants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAfter these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThere is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
Genesis
LawNow the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,
1 Chronicles
HistoryDamascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings
HistoryThe children of Adonikam, six hundred threescore and seven.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThen Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.
Genesis
LawConcerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulOf whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
Hebrews
General EpistlesThen was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God.
Daniel
Major ProphetsFor the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?