And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAll the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThis also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahTherefore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis;
Acts
History / LukeFor first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThen a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
Mark
GospelsAnd when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAt the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
Judges
HistoryFor so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
2 Kings
HistoryAnd they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
Judges
History / SamuelThat thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Mark
GospelsAnd Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law before God.
Exodus
LawWhen Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.