Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power: thou shalt not have one lot only:
Joshua
HistoryBut the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
Job
WisdomAnd thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThe Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
Luke
Gospels / LukeHe rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersCorrect thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.
Proverbs
WisdomMoreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.
2 Chronicles
HistoryWho is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.
Exodus
LawFor we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanLet them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it was made through all the house round about.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
Leviticus
LawFor neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulLo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
Job
WisdomThen Job answered the LORD, and said,
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,
Ezra
HistoryFor he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.