He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
James
General EpistlesThey feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Beth-el with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephrain with the towns thereof.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonIn the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsShall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
Genesis
Law / MosesAt that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Psalms
PoetryAnd five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
Genesis
LawWho was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand?
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSurely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:
Job
WisdomVerily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
Matthew
GospelsAnd after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd 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 / ZechariahAnd he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
Matthew
GospelsI beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThey hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.