A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsTherefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
John
Gospels / JohnSeeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterFor some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.
John
GospelsWherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBut it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahHe raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
Numbers
LawI have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.
Leviticus
LawThat the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
Psalms
PoetryAnd when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?
Luke
GospelsYe blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Matthew
GospelsNow the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielOf Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
Numbers
LawSimon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.
John
Gospels / JohnNow it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king's office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and the high priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.
Psalms
PoetryIn the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.