The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahMy tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
Psalms
PoetryNow the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHaving your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
1 Peter
General EpistlesAnd some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielShall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahI will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
Psalms
PoetryThen came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAll ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsElihu also proceeded, and said,
Job
Wisdom / JobArt thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukSo the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
Genesis
LawAnd Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
Genesis
LawAnd the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the LORD.
Joshua
HistoryWho can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,
Esther
HistoryAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
LawAnd they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
Numbers
LawAnd the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBenjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
Genesis
LawAnd they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.