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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:
Genesis
Law / MosesThey drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;
Mark
GospelsThe impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
John
GospelsHide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
Psalms
PoetryThen was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these?
Genesis
Law / MosesFor in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people.
Joshua
HistoryAnd one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.
Luke
GospelsSimon, (whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,
Luke
GospelsFor ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd they delivered the king's commissions unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river: and they furthered the people, and the house of God.
Ezra
History / EzraHe that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
John
GospelsBut of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of his chariots and horsemen.
2 Chronicles
HistoryWhen I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
Joshua
HistoryFor if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
2 Peter
General EpistlesNow the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the LORD,
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
Numbers
LawThen shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.
Exodus
LawIs it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?