The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
2 Samuel
HistoryBy little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe song of songs, which is Solomon's.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonFor the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahLest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
Proverbs
WisdomThey took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFor thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
Psalms
PoetryBut Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
Numbers
LawAnd God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.
Genesis
LawBut the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.
Esther
HistoryAnd he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraYe are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Matthew
GospelsBut Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
John
Gospels / JohnNow I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesI have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnAnd it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsO wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThere is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?
John
GospelsFor it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
Nehemiah
HistorySpeak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.