If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against the king's son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanIn the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewYe shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
1 Kings
HistoryOpen to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:
Psalms
PoetryEvil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonNow the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIf thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
Deuteronomy
LawMy desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.
Job
WisdomFill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
Matthew
GospelsDrought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
Job
Wisdom / JobBut now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahThe lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.
1 Samuel
HistoryIf ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiEvery moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in Judah things went well.