Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
Job
Wisdom / JobI am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?
Luke
GospelsBut I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.
Deuteronomy
LawWhat mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNow the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings
HistoryIncline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsYea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
Job
WisdomAnd when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that was with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave caring for the asses, and take thought for us.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.
Ruth
History / SamuelOne kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers
LawWhereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return thou, and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth be with thee.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him.
John
GospelsSon of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesWhen thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.
Deuteronomy
LawBut if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulA proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Proverbs
WisdomAnd hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and putting his hand on him, that he might receive his sight.
Acts
History / LukeTherefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahA good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.