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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.
Exodus
Law / MosesThese also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,
Leviticus
LawThe God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
Acts
HistoryAnd Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;
Numbers
LawThen went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.
Judges
History / SamuelIsrael is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaThe locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
Proverbs
WisdomAnd now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the way of peace have they not known:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesBut with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThe children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.
Nehemiah
HistoryAs for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel,
2 Chronicles
History / EzraTo Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHow he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?
Matthew
GospelsJesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
John
GospelsAnd I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field.
Nehemiah
HistoryI am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.