A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
Proverbs
WisdomLament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelHave pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Job
WisdomBut the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterWhile he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue's house, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master.
Luke
GospelsTake the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:
Nehemiah
HistoryIt is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.
John
GospelsAnd when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.
Genesis
LawDaniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king;
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielA son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiThat he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
Job
WisdomThy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see:
Luke
GospelsAnd to them which were in Rachal, and to them which were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities of the Kenites,
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBehold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesAlso that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.
Nehemiah
HistoryOf righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;
John
GospelsAnd it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he shall take of it his handful, of the flour of the meat offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which is upon the meat offering, and shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour, even the memorial of it, unto the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the king said, And where is thy master's son? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for he said, To day shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.