While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
John
GospelsHearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBehold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor ProphetsI will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Jonadab said unto the king, Behold, the king's sons come: as thy servant said, so it is.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHow long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?
Acts
HistoryWhen the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThe burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.
Exodus
LawAnd Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the captain of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
Numbers
LawWhosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
Luke
GospelsThey have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsTherefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThey have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonMachnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
Ezra
HistoryThen there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.
Acts
HistoryBut I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.