For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
Exodus
LawThe posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.
Esther
HistoryThe highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.
Acts
History / LukeAnd every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.
Mark
GospelsThen said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelHe made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBarley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThere is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomTherefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
Numbers
Law / MosesWhich also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
Acts
HistoryThou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.
Genesis
Law / MosesShall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Matthew
GospelsThus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahTherefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.