Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.
Genesis
LawAnd it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him:
Mark
Gospels / MarkTherefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
1 Peter
General EpistlesAnd behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.
Judges
HistoryI will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIf this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAs for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahKnow ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Romans
Pauline EpistlesFor it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
Job
Wisdom / JobAs for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.
2 Samuel
HistoryThe face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.
Daniel
Major ProphetsSo now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?