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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.
1 Kings
HistoryThey compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
Psalms
PoetryThe posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.
Esther
History / MordecaiThe children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two.
Ezra
HistoryAnd the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
Nehemiah
HistoryInsomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahAnd when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
Exodus
Law / MosesHe hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsNow when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)
Esther
HistoryAnd the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.
1 Chronicles
HistoryA good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Matthew
GospelsAnd, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahSon of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.
Numbers
LawBut when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
Luke
Gospels / LukeHe rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
Psalms
PoetryBlessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
Psalms
PoetryI will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
Job
WisdomWhich when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.