And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielLo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the evening and the morning were the third day.
Genesis
Law / MosesCircumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAll things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
John
GospelsYea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass.
Ezra
HistoryLong time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
Acts
History / LukeIn these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
John
GospelsWoe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Matthew
GospelsI will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.
Psalms
PoetryWhen thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.
Mark
GospelsLament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelThey say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to the LORD, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.
Exodus
Law / MosesThus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of the LORD, even vessels to minister, and to offer withal, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraIn that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it.