For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.
Nehemiah
HistoryThen I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHow precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersGod hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThey shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd all they that were about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all that was willingly offered.
Ezra
History / EzraTherefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahArise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
1 Kings
HistoryWhom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts;
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulNow the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin:
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWhen their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn 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 ProphetsWhich make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
Job
WisdomI make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end.
Daniel
Major ProphetsThis shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsThat our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.