He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe eighteenth to Hanani, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
Psalms
PoetryWhy trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWhich are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
Job
WisdomAnd if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
Leviticus
LawAnd said unto them, Sirs, I perceive that this voyage will be with hurt and much damage, not only of the lading and ship, but also of our lives.
Acts
History / LukeThou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.
Solomon's Song
PoetryFor if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.
Exodus
LawRejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.
Genesis
LawFor my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomFrom the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
2 Samuel
HistoryIn the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.