A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd the sons of Bela were, Addar, and Gera, and Abihud,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraHow precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
Psalms
PoetryFor thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:
Numbers
LawThou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master's son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread alway at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:
Genesis
Law / MosesThe young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd ye are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother;)
Judges
HistoryAnd Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king bowed himself upon the bed.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as the LORD hath blessed me hitherto?
Joshua
HistoryA foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThen Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.
Acts
HistoryAnd there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.
Psalms
PoetryBehold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiFor the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:
John
GospelsAnd they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening.