And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
Job
WisdomAnd it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahO God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
Psalms
PoetryAnd Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.
2 Chronicles
HistoryIf it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
Esther
HistoryAnd Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
Joshua
HistoryThus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the vale for abundance.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the priests' custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
Genesis
LawAnd Moses charged the people the same day, saying,
Deuteronomy
LawAnd if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:
Exodus
Law / MosesSo the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
Joshua
History / JoshuaSo they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahMy son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
Proverbs
WisdomFor he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.
Job
WisdomFor the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHow many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
Job
Wisdom / JobThus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe.
Numbers
LawAnd at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
Mark
GospelsHe therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesDid not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?