And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
Job
WisdomCease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesContinue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulConsider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMarvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Psalms
PoetryAnd except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
Matthew
GospelsThe pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
Obadiah
Minor ProphetsAnd Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
Luke
Gospels / LukeWith the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.
Exodus
LawDevise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWhich also king David did dedicate unto the LORD, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued;
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.
Esther
History / MordecaiThat they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
Psalms
PoetryIf a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd as they were going down to the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us, (and he passed on,) but stand thou still a while, that I may shew thee the word of God.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsAnd he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThat thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.