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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place.
Job
WisdomFor they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAs for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
Jude
General Epistles / JudeThen take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest;
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahSince thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
Judges
HistoryFrom Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon;
Joshua
HistorySet ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
Exodus
LawGo and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.
Philemon
Pauline EpistlesHe answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahThen stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness;
Mark
Gospels / MarkAlso he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
Genesis
LawThou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.
Deuteronomy
LawWho can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Job
Wisdom / JobAs also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.
Acts
History / LukeAnd it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out.
Judges
HistoryAnd when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves.