The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaThou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.
Luke
Gospels / LukeDo they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.
Deuteronomy
LawThe Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraEvery man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonRemove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
Genesis
Law / MosesThen shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain for ever.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAs it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahA land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
Deuteronomy
LawBeloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnThey part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
Psalms
PoetryFor they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
Proverbs
WisdomReturn, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.
Solomon's Song
PoetryOne golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
Numbers
Law / MosesFor the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.