For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHe who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.
Mark
Gospels / MarkBut when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
Luke
GospelsAnd she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:
Genesis
Law / MosesThou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.
Solomon's Song
PoetryThey stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWhich was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Addi, which was the son of Cosam, which was the son of Elmodam, which was the son of Er,
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahO thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon.
Judges
History / SamuelMake no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Proverbs
WisdomWhoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
Proverbs
WisdomIs this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.
Judges
HistoryAnd the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew them unto thee art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.
Judges
History / SamuelHe that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWe have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth.
Acts
HistoryEven those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore.