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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHow many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
Job
Wisdom / JobYe shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahMy tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
Psalms
PoetryAlso on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Mark
GospelsThen the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.
Esther
History / MordecaiLying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
Proverbs
WisdomAs snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
2 Kings
HistoryThen came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.
1 Samuel
HistoryGod having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.
Joshua
HistoryAnd when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD given by Moses.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
Exodus
Law / MosesFor the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersEven the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Proverbs
WisdomThese are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of dividing the country.
Joshua
History / JoshuaWill a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsWe who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,