The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSo they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraIn the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.
Deuteronomy
LawFor I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielMy soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
Genesis
Law / MosesAgain Esther spake unto Hatach, and gave him commandment unto Mordecai;
Esther
History / MordecaiBut now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulMoreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahA wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
Proverbs
WisdomYet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsThey are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley, and they that were on the other side Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelWill the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
Job
WisdomThe sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea,
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielOne is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
Job
Wisdom / JobSpeak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
2 Chronicles
HistoryAgain, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.