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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Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
Acts
HistoryFor the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
James
General EpistlesAnd the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said unto him, Shew us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will shew thee mercy.
Judges
HistoryFor what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
Exodus
LawThere was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.
Exodus
LawAre thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,
Job
Wisdom / JobAgain he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThey all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?
Numbers
Law / MosesPilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified.
Matthew
GospelsDeliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersGod having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Hebrews
General EpistlesThese are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ancles.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHow beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsNow the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?