Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielJesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
John
GospelsAnd prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
Genesis
LawAwake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
Exodus
Law / MosesWhich maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
Job
WisdomThere went with us also certain of the disciples of Caesarea, and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, with whom we should lodge.
Acts
HistoryAnd she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
Judges
History / SamuelAs a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
James
General EpistlesAnd the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
Judges
HistoryAnd they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.
Genesis
Law / MosesIt stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
1 Kings
HistoryHe trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
Law / MosesLet the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThis thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the LORD'S anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.