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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
Genesis
LawAnd they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech.
Judges
HistoryOne kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Ramoth with her suburbs, and Anem with her suburbs:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAt that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.
1 Samuel
HistoryThey ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahHow much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraKnowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulMark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.
John
GospelsFor I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD'S deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes?
John
Gospels / JohnLabour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.