Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFor though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesNicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
John
Gospels / JohnIn a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesWhen I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdoth-pisgah:
Joshua
HistoryThe righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
Job
Wisdom / JobOf the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and the LORD be with thee.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God was your king.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThen said David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father shewed kindness unto me. And David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.
2 Samuel
HistoryWhen they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.
Judges
HistoryAnd thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.
Numbers
Law / MosesThey compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersYe shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesA blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:
Deuteronomy
LawBlessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king's gate.
Esther
HistoryAnd the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsWhereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.