The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.
Judges
HistoryMy soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Mark
GospelsBut God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus
LawThe king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahKeep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
Psalms
PoetryThen the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
Psalms
PoetryTurn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.
Solomon's Song
PoetryIn his days did Hiel the Beth-elite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahDead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
2 Kings
HistoryThen went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.
Luke
GospelsAs an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThis charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesShould we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?
Ezra
HistoryBehold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of redemption is thine to buy it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielSo she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.
Ruth
History / SamuelOne generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.