I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake.
John
Gospels / JohnSo shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
Proverbs
WisdomIt was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAlso unto Shemaiah his son were sons born, that ruled throughout the house of their father: for they were mighty men of valour.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThere the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
Job
WisdomNow set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD.
1 Chronicles
HistoryWherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
Genesis
LawAll the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
2 Kings
HistoryO my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThere were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the fame hereof went abroad into all that land.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewJesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
John
Gospels / JohnFret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBy the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd I commanded, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein.
Ezra
History / EzraFor the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBecause thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.