For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:
Deuteronomy
LawYe looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
Haggai
Minor ProphetsThy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.
Exodus
LawAnd whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
Luke
GospelsAnd ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
2 Kings
HistoryI had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
Genesis
Law / MosesThou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
Psalms
PoetryAnd unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD'S house.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
Deuteronomy
LawHe hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsSpeak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsAnd he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.
Genesis
LawHe disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Job
WisdomWhen thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth-hattaavah.
Numbers
Law / MosesWhat man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
Psalms
PoetryBut they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.