And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
Psalms
PoetryAnd I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
Luke
GospelsThe merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe children of Beth-lehem, an hundred twenty and three.
Ezra
History / EzraThat we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.
Leviticus
LawIn their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
Job
Wisdom / JobNow Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
Judges
HistoryEvery male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.
Leviticus
Law / MosesEliel, and Obed, and Jasiel the Mesobaite.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHe restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBut he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
Matthew
GospelsAnd his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraOne man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.