Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the LORD hath kept thee back from honour.
Numbers
Law / MosesO God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
1 Samuel
HistoryBut thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
Psalms
PoetryTo deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesA soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonTo the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
1 John
General EpistlesI charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the LORD is your way wherein ye go.
Judges
HistoryAnd if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
Exodus
LawAnd they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.
2 Kings
HistoryThe children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.
Ezra
History / EzraThe former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
Acts
History / LukeAbsalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken by Moses.
Exodus
Law / MosesWhereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.
Leviticus
LawPass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThat it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.