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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
Psalms
PoetryThus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsSo king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon: and Solomon said unto him, Go to thine house.
1 Kings
HistoryHerein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnSon of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
Luke
GospelsAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
LawAnd when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,
Matthew
GospelsAs snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
Luke
GospelsLet all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
Psalms
PoetryThou shalt not commit adultery.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them an hundred chariots.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;