The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraDo we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,
Luke
GospelsThere shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
Deuteronomy
LawBut how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
Matthew
GospelsAnd Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.
Genesis
Law / MosesAs many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahDepart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.
Psalms
PoetryAnd David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesFor the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
1 Samuel
HistoryLet my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Psalms
PoetryWhen I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIt is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.
Exodus
LawSpeak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod before it.
Exodus
LawI called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahSon of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.