Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThough it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
Job
WisdomAnd they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city.
Acts
History / LukeAnd her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNow therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.
Genesis
Law / MosesThou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Psalms
PoetryThe eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
Job
WisdomTheir knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.
Exodus
LawNotwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
2 Kings
HistoryForasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThese things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
Titus
Pauline EpistlesOur bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahLikewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAfterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielMoreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
2 Samuel
HistoryThen Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIf thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
Esther
History / MordecaiAgainst Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh-necho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,