The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahOn these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Matthew
GospelsHe that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: the LORD God of my lord the king say so too.
1 Kings
HistoryI cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersGo thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThe burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahGive the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for the LORD hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFor as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a spreading plague: thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me to battle, thou and thy men.
1 Samuel
HistoryBut if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
2 Kings
HistoryAnd so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
Numbers
LawAnd the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael, all their days.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: