But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud;
Matthew
GospelsGo thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.
Exodus
LawAnd Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David's enemy continually.
1 Samuel
HistoryHis bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
Daniel
Major ProphetsHe sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
Psalms
PoetryAnd there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahMy breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
Job
Wisdom / JobIn the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Luke
Gospels / LukeHe lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
Psalms
PoetryAs the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:
Deuteronomy
LawFor he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.
2 Kings
HistoryWhithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.
Judges
History / SamuelFor from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from the LORD.
1 Kings
HistoryThey say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
John
Gospels / JohnBut after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
Ezra
HistoryVerily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.