In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.
Luke
GospelsWho can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
John
GospelsAnd Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
Judges
History / SamuelThat it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
John
GospelsThe hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.
Luke
Gospels / LukeTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFlee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThey shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:
Amos
Minor ProphetsSo the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was noised throughout all the country.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThen Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Joshua
HistoryAnd for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Numbers
LawA glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?