If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
Solomon's Song
PoetryFor the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis
LawAnd with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one was an head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel.
Joshua
HistoryThe son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchiah,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWho goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulO turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSaid with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.
Acts
HistoryAnd again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.
Mark
Gospels / MarkJehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
2 Kings
HistoryAlso can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
Job
WisdomBecause sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomSo that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received commandments: if he come unto you, receive him;)
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Zebadiah, and Arad, and Ader,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulTo understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
Proverbs
WisdomHow hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter in law, It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any other field.
Ruth
History / SamuelEven as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.