My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.
Psalms
PoetryAnd David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
1 Samuel
HistoryThen said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
Esther
HistoryAgain he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.
Judges
History / SamuelThe fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Proverbs
WisdomThe hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesDoubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
Matthew
GospelsBut when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:
Joshua
HistoryAnd the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
Genesis
LawAnd the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families.
Joshua
History / JoshuaDoth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Job
Wisdom / JobWhere the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBehold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:
Genesis
Law / MosesServants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
1 Peter
General EpistlesAnd the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.
Acts
HistoryAnd in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahNevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWhen Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him, and turned him about, and said unto the people that followed him, I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWhosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
1 John
General EpistlesAnd he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.