A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
Numbers
Law / MosesNow these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
Judges
History / SamuelThat he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThese are the families of Manasseh, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesNow when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersEvil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
Psalms
PoetryIt was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsO house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAs for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.
Judges
HistoryBehold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBecause thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukAsk thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.
Acts
HistoryA poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonStand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.