For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
Job
WisdomAll they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Exodus
Law / MosesBehold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
2 Kings
HistoryAnd I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsA man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomBehold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahJehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
Deuteronomy
LawThey are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
Numbers
Law / MosesThe Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side; and the border went about eastward unto Taanath-shiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah;
Joshua
History / JoshuaThen Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that was come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in great anger.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraDost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.
Psalms
PoetryThe chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumBut there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:
Acts
HistoryYe that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.