Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
Proverbs
WisdomThus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
Haggai
Minor ProphetsAnd the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
1 Kings
HistorySave now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.
Psalms
PoetryArabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
Psalms
PoetryO LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukOf the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers
LawAnd thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, of wreathen work of pure gold.
Exodus
LawThe rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewRestore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
Psalms
PoetryAnd straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewNow when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraPardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
Numbers
LawAnd she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelNow Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.
Judges
History / SamuelAttend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be the LORD this day, which hath given unto David a wise son over this great people.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males.
Ezra
HistoryIn measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.