A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Matthew
GospelsOr I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThat I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAgainst whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.
Genesis
LawHe that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
Joshua
History / JoshuaNow the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings
HistoryAnd I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon, which is in the utmost coast.
Numbers
Law / MosesHe answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd 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 Prophets / ZechariahAnd the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
Genesis
Law / MosesNevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.
Joshua
HistorySpeak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.
Leviticus
LawAnd Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.
Genesis
LawBut their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?
Luke
GospelsBut the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD'S oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;
Deuteronomy
LawSanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Haphraim, and Shion, and Anaharath,
Joshua
HistoryThus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.