The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonTell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?
Matthew
GospelsThis is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAlso unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.
Judges
HistoryYour kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsStrangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAdam, Sheth, Enosh,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.
Genesis
Law / MosesAlso their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonI have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
John
GospelsAnd God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my son.
Judges
HistoryShall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukAnd then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewI will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
John
GospelsAnd one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but destroyed it utterly, and all the souls that were therein.