When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
Psalms
PoetryAs when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHe shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
Job
WisdomThou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahWhoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
Proverbs
WisdomThen I answered them, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.
Genesis
Law / MosesEnvyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory.
Genesis
LawIn all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraO fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
Psalms
Poetry(Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)
John
Gospels / JohnNay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesIf I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAlso thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration:
Exodus
Law / MosesOf the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.