For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus
LawTherefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraTake ye from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and silver, and brass,
Exodus
LawA poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
Proverbs
WisdomThe voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
Psalms
PoetryFor the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
Psalms
PoetryIf they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
Numbers
LawHow do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
John
Gospels / JohnLest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
Proverbs
WisdomSo that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownTherefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsCarry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.
Luke
GospelsWhom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts;
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulViolence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings
HistoryAnd they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
Numbers
Law / MosesHe wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch.