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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Proverbs
WisdomAnd now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
Leviticus
Law / MosesIf, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
2 Chronicles
HistoryMoreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?
Luke
Gospels / LukeDeal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word.
Psalms
PoetryThen said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsDoth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?
Job
WisdomThere is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThere was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
John
GospelsBehold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahTherefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife's name was Maachah:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.
Exodus
LawMan did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?
John
GospelsYe lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
James
General EpistlesFor thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;