As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field:
1 Kings
HistoryBut, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth.
Mark
GospelsAnd he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
Genesis
LawWhat wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAll nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
Psalms
PoetryHe moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
Job
WisdomAnd the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?
Mark
Gospels / MarkFor we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
Esther
HistoryTake heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
Ezra
HistoryThe children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true.
John
GospelsAnd the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Genesis
LawAnd when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.
Judges
History / SamuelI clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.