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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:
Philemon
Pauline Epistles / PaulI called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
Job
WisdomBut the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
Acts
History / LukeAnd that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war,
2 Chronicles
HistoryNow therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.
1 Kings
HistoryJesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel.
John
Gospels / JohnAlso the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
Revelation
ApocalypticFor wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThat this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:
Numbers
LawAnd he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
Numbers
LawThou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryA nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:
Deuteronomy
LawNow Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFor neither did his brethren believe in him.