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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:
2 Chronicles
HistoryHis offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
Numbers
LawAnd all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAt what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHolding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesTherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
Mark
GospelsThey shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsSo they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Ben-hadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
Numbers
LawAnd the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
Genesis
LawThey have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThis their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
2 Kings
HistoryMy fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full.
Mark
GospelsAnd these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the captain of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.