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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
Leviticus
LawAnd your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThere are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick.
Exodus
LawThen will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:
James
General Epistles / JamesMoreover the sons of Obed-edom were, Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethaneel the fifth,
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahFor an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
Exodus
Law / MosesNow the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings
HistoryNow about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.
John
Gospels / JohnFor this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
Daniel
Major ProphetsI have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersA fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonNow therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;
Genesis
LawSurely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosI go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man;
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThou shalt not commit adultery.