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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonTwo wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon, according to their service:
Numbers
LawFor if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHowbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat.
Luke
GospelsFor there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahFor he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersServe the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee.
Mark
GospelsSo they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
Genesis
LawThen hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.
2 Chronicles
HistoryPraise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel;
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielBut last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen said we unto them after this manner, What are the names of the men that make this building?
Ezra
HistoryAnd Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,