By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielBehold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
Job
Wisdom / JobOtherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against me.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd the people journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth.
Numbers
LawBut I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesBehold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
Acts
HistoryBut it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIt shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaFor when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownWho hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Job
WisdomThus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
Psalms
PoetryAnd if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
Leviticus
LawAnd she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
Exodus
LawThe highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellowdisciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Matthew
GospelsNow the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord?
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahBut the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.