It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he brought the bullock for the sin offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin offering.
Leviticus
Law / MosesSo will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
Acts
History / LukeGo ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAccording to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahFor thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThey came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
Job
Wisdom / JobI, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.
Judges
HistoryFor thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
Genesis
LawBut I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsFor he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the LORD God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,
Ezra
History / EzraWho have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
Psalms
PoetryAnd in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus
Law / MosesSo speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
James
General EpistlesAnd the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.
Genesis
LawAnd thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together: