Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHe is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
Job
Wisdom / JobBehold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsIn the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare?
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Job
WisdomMy foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHe that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.
Luke
GospelsHe is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
Psalms
PoetryAnd number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFolly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThe earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIshmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, even with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, and the men of war.