The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Came unto me, and stood, and said unto me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And the same hour I looked up upon him.
Acts
History / LukeAnd ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
Luke
GospelsSo Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at even;
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
Genesis
Law / MosesThere is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
Acts
HistoryBut when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father of Beth-lehem.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
2 Kings
HistoryI have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
Psalms
PoetryNow Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFinally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterNow the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
Judges
HistoryThy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersDead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonElse if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
Joshua
History / JoshuaThen said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAs it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAs my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;