But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
1 Kings
HistoryThou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNone calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewDelilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.
Judges
History / SamuelThey shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonSo the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBut ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosWhen he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWhose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.
Job
WisdomThat which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada,
Nehemiah
HistoryShe said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.
Genesis
Law / MosesUriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.
2 Samuel
HistoryThe LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBehold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsJesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
Matthew
GospelsA reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
Proverbs
WisdomTherefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
Esther
HistoryThis only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?