For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
Acts
History / LukeFathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHe that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAgain, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the sons of Elioenai were, Hodaiah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Dalaiah, and Anani, seven.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraIf a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?
John
Gospels / JohnA fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonI protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd they told him, that Jesus of Nazareth passeth by.
Luke
Gospels / LukeNow this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.
Ezra
HistoryThough thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaSo the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest round about.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThere is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan.
Genesis
LawO LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;