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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
Hebrews
General EpistlesFor there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.
Exodus
LawNeither give place to the devil.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesWho then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBut Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThough a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:
Ecclesiastes
WisdomWherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulIn the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:
Numbers
LawAnd Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
Genesis
LawHave they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
Judges
HistoryAnd Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been to thee-ward very good:
1 Samuel
History / SamuelI have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsYet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Job
WisdomAnd the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there remained not one.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.
Acts
HistoryTwo are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomPeradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
Genesis
Law / MosesFor mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.