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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAfter these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWhen ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;
Leviticus
Law / MosesThat sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalisha, but they found them not: then they passed through the land of Shalim, and there they were not: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they found them not.
1 Samuel
HistoryBehold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
Exodus
LawAnd they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistoryIn the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
Psalms
PoetryAnd they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.
Luke
Gospels / LukeSaying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeI am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
John
GospelsAnd they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?
Judges
HistoryAnd Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he was the firstborn.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThere be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: