Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsKnowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesHe mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.
Job
WisdomAnd the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the vail of the sanctuary.
Leviticus
LawSeest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahIf thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.
Acts
HistoryAnd while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.
Nehemiah
HistoryThou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahMoreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesI laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
Proverbs
WisdomThou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
Judges
History / SamuelHave mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
Psalms
PoetryIf thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
Proverbs
WisdomWill he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the king said unto him, Turn aside, and stand here. And he turned aside, and stood still.