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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah.
2 Kings
HistoryNow the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him: but Jesus sent him away, saying,
Luke
GospelsThey on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
Luke
GospelsAnd the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsO Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraIf thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonThen I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAlso her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWhen wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king, All is well. And he fell down to the earth upon his face before the king, and said, Blessed be the LORD thy God, which hath delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against my lord the king.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.
Numbers
Law / MosesThus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThese are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewLet them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
Psalms
PoetryIn holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
Luke
GospelsWho shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTwo are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThis day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.