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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
1 Kings
HistoryNone is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
Job
WisdomHe that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonThou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
Psalms
PoetryThey shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness.
Numbers
Law / MosesThis thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulThese are their generations: The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
Acts
HistoryAnd they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.
Deuteronomy
LawSo Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.
2 Samuel
HistoryBut when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole.
Luke
GospelsAnd Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her suburbs,
Joshua
HistoryAnd Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
1 Kings
HistoryGive not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonSo the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.
Ezra
HistoryAnd for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.