A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
Numbers
LawAnd all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesThou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
Psalms
PoetryWherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraO LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.
Judges
HistoryTake heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?
2 Chronicles
HistoryI will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.
Psalms
PoetryWhy then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahHe healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, even to his house.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAlso their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonBut if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD:
Leviticus
LawThese words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.