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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Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsIf thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
Job
WisdomYet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Genesis
LawAnd I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThey shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Luke
GospelsAnd he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
Psalms
PoetrySo Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon them.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThe tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
Exodus
LawAnd David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.
Mark
Gospels / MarkWho is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the second came, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained five pounds.
Luke
Gospels / LukeLest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus
LawBehold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.