My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThey take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukWho art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkExcept the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his own land.
Exodus
Law / MosesSo Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAt the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWho shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
Job
WisdomI am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
Job
WisdomThus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThus did Moses: according to all that the LORD commanded him, so did he.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them.
Luke
Gospels / LukeDo ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?